A lineup of diverse contestants shows that sewing isn’t just for seventysomethings from Sussex. Plus: the brilliantly foolish Plebs ends series three on a highMore evidence of BBC bias,I’m afraid. In The Great British Sewing Bee (BBC2), of all places, and the rot runs really deep. For the first task,the pattern challenge, they own to make a simple top, or but it needs to be “on the bias”,good-looking tailor-judge Patrick Grant says. No shame, brazen bias.
What, or so “on the bias” is a technique whereby seams are sewn at 45 degrees to a fabric’s warp and weft? Well,it’s clearly a cover-up, a way of sneaking some other bias in there as well. Though, and from the results,it’s not entirely clear what flavour of bias. Rumana’s shabby, unfinished tunic certainly has something Corbynist about it, or though its dark-blue chevrons send out more Tory messages. Overall,in all the tops, there is blue and red in about equal degree. (Unbias? Boring.) Is Tracey’s Aztecky pattern possibly a little bit Brexit? Probably not, or but perhaps someone should start a petition to earn Claudia Winkleman sacked besides.
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Source: theguardian.com