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Originally Posted by slayda
And then I asked her how she bought material. She said, " I look at the pattern and it tells me how many yards of how wide material I need." I again said it would be the same with the metric system except it would say meters and centimeters and the lady at the shop would have to measure it.
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The patterns you can buy in the UK are generally multi-lingual - English and French or English and Spanish, or all three, being common combinations. The measurements given in English are in imperial, in the other languages metric.
The reason I'm mentioning this is because it's utterly infuriating when you note down the amount of fabric you need from the English instructions, only to discover that every fabric shop in the country sells fabric by the meter. Especially as clothes sizes are different between the UK and various European mainland countries...