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"Good afternoon, my eager home ec'ers!" Aquaman greeted the class with his usual gusto and smile, standing amid a home ec classroom that looked like a fabric store had imbibed about five hundred drinks too many and ralphed all over the place. "I hope your weekends were good ones, productive and life-fulfilling! And I hope your Mondays have also gotten you prepared for another fun and exiting week in the adventure that is summer camp! But enough of that! Let us march onward to our next exciting chapter in this book of the economics of the home!"

With that, Aquaman reached back, a dramatic pose like one about to pull forth a sword to cause great damage to evil doers everywhere, and then brandished...

...a sewing needle.

With a little bit of orange thread still dangling loose from the eye.

"Darning! Sewing! Mending! Our clothing is what keeps us warm, it's got our backs covered, it can be a distinguishing feature and it keeps us from indecently exposing ourselves to both the elements and our fellow compatriates, although, admittedly," he put a hand to his mouth as if divulging in a secretive whisper, although his tone didn't really drop much, "some of us more than others. So we need to know how to take care of them. One way to do so is...well, to sew! Fix up all those little holes and tears before they become big holes and tears! Allow me to demonstrate!"

Which he did, whipping out a large orange shirt that appeared to have gills on it, and narrating as he showed the class the basics of how to sew, not only holes in your clothing, but also a button.

"Now, give it a try! As you can see, we have many clothes in need of mending!" It seemed beyond Aquaman to think that some of these clothes had been ripped and ruined for a reason. "There exists among them a varying degree of distress, so pick one you feel comfortable with and darn those darn clothes!"

"If you feel that mere hemming, stitching, sewing and buttoning is a little basic for your own personal skills, I also have available some different material and detailing accessories, and you may spend some time trying to sew your own superhero costume! Remember to keep in mind your color choices from last week! And you want it to be bold and adventurous, just like you!"

"So have at it! Really sew this clothing who's boss!"

Yes, he thought that was funny. Shhh.

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But, let's face it, most of them are probably beyond redemption.

Bod found a rather raggedy piece of clothing and went to work trying to repair it. He managed to prick his fingers about five times and really only made the material look worse.

Eventually, he did manage to sew a small hole shut and he considered that a major success.

Dandelion looked at the ragged shirt in from of her with a big hole and frowned for a moment or two.

Then she pulled some duct tape out of her backpack and slapped some on the whole.

"DONE!"

Oh, god, who would do this to fabric? Were these things created on a dare? Was someone taking their hatred of life out on clothing that couldn't fight back?

Kitty tried to save the garments anyway, even if the kind thing would be to put them out of their misery, though she wasn't doing too well. Once she even tried to figure out if phasing her hand through the fabric would maybe make it easier or faster or whatever, but once that ended in her pricking herself with the needle, she decided this was not worth blood.

There was an unfortunate hole in the stomach of the dress Tara grabbed -- the weird thing was, it looked like it had been put there on purpose. She brought the edges of the cloth together to close the hole, planning to add straps if she had extra time.

Calvin stared at the clothing. Clearly it was all part of an evil plot of some description!

Why an evil plot would involve horrible clothes, Calvin did not know, only that it did.

Despite the rather...bold (http://www.uglydress.com/redslutty.html)...color of the dress Rilla had found, she was pleased to see it was at least the correct length.

The sleeves, though...all wrong. She ripped them off and tried to see what she could do to fix them.

Sookie snagged a rather poofy (http://www.uglydress.com/wedbeldres.html) dress, and attempted to start ripping out the crinoline, at least.

It was...sort of an improvement.

Emmett was never going to be Edna Mode, but as a seamstress, he could pass. Er, seamster? That made him think of truck driving unions, though, and big guys in grease-smeared coveralls, and then he lost track of what he was supposed to be doing. Oh, sewing on buttons. Right!

No piece of clothing worth saving, with a sense of its own self-preservation, would ever look to Sara as a probable saviour.

It was just as well that none of the articles of clothing she picked out were, in her estimation, worth saving. She gave it a game try anyhow, but her stitches were ragged and uneven, she'd managed to sew several pleats together, and she pricked her finger rather hopelessly shortly after she realized she'd badly underestimated the amount of thread she'd need.

Kurt picked up a garment of some kind... well, presumably it was a dress, but there were far too many holes in it. He couldn't figure out which of the holes were for the neck and arms, which were accidental tears, and which were just there for decoration. So, he started sewing up holes at random and just was glad he wasn't going to have to try it on.

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