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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
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...
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I thought they still used rulers - though I do remember watching in a John Lewis store a sale assistant using a measuring reel that was clamped to the table and the cloth was pulled through a slot that both measured and cut the length required...