What's a lost skill that no one seems to remember how to do anymore?

Women dressing like women instead of dressing like some working class butch man.

No kidding here! Today I went to a grocery store and followed this person wearing trousers that looked exactly like pajamas. She had this large opened parka and a baseball cap on. I thought this person must be one of those rappers that some many Canadians worship. I didn't know it was a woman until I passed her.
 
charry said:
My husband being an architect with all drawings on CAD now , instead of Drawing Boards ……
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How does your husband feel about drawing on CAD systems?

I used to design machinery in the late '80s and into the early '90s. When I first started, we worked on drafting tables, and that was great until a major change was needed. Then it's either get out the electric eraser or redraw. Changes are far easier to make on a CAD system.

Working on a CAD system is hard on the eyes and tiring. It's a lot more enjoyable to draw by hand... almost like creating a work of art.
 
Warrigal said:
My husband was a patternmaker by trade. This involved making wooden patterns of parts of machinery from technical drawings. The patterns were used in the foundry to cast the machine parts from molten metal.
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Yes that is probably a lost art. In the 70s and early 80s I worked my way thru college in a large steel castings foundry, We made mostly parts for railroad car undercarriages. The pattern makers then were mostly older gentlemen, and the the business was totally closed by about 1988 or so. They did beautiful work.
 
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