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Re:All Clothing Is Handmade (2022) by psunavy03 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @11:37AM (#43483376)
Go look up the origin of the word "shoddy" as it relates to the crappy field uniforms unscrupulous vendors sold to the Federal government during the Civil War.
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Re:All Clothing Is Handmade (2022) by klondike_klive on Friday March 28, 2025 @07:06PM (#43510853)
That's interesting - I always assumed that "shoddy" and "slipshod" were related since their meanings are so similar, but apparently not!

Thanks for leading me to that definition.

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