After I started working, I only tried to do bits here and there when the kids are asleep, or when the kids are watching television, or when they are at school. “I could only sew when I did not start working yet. when I didn’t have children, so I had a lot of spare time.” - Sia Yang, 2018 So you would have to be able to do this kind of stuff, like make new outfits for the family, for the husband and the kids. “Part of the role, women’s role, is to be able to sew. Some moms spend a whole year working on it, that by the time the New Year comes around, it’s really a proud moment for them.” - PaSia Lor Moua, 2011 “When we come to the New Year, we wear what we are really proud of and we put so much work into it. Traditionally, everybody had to have a new costume during the New Year’s to bring good luck to the new year.” - Jennifer Vue, 2018 Sometimes she would just ask the children to sleep and she would light a little lamp and then she was just sitting all night to sew the costumes to get ready for the New Year’s in December…. “So back in Laos when I was a little girl, my mom always prepared a costume for us for the New Years….
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