ENTRE AGULHAS E MEMÓRIAS: UMA ANÁLISE SOBRE A TRAJETÓRIA DE DOIS PROFISSIONAIS DA COSTURA EM CAMPO GRANDE (MS)

Abstract

This article presents an anthropological analysis of the course of tailors and seamstresses in Campo Grande (MS), examining how economic, social, and cultural transformations have reshaped the position of these workers in the contemporary textile field. The research investigates how professionals who work with traditional sewing practices, once central to the production of customized clothing, have come to experience processes of devaluation, invisibilization, and precarization in the face of industrialization, fast fashion, and the growing informality of labor. Drawing on interviews with a tailor and a seamstress, complemented by bibliographical review and field observation, discusses the persistence of traditional craft practices within a context defined by production acceleration, industrial aesthetic homogenization, and the predominance of mass manufacturing. The analysis also explores how these workers develop strategies for continuity and symbolic resistance, while acknowledging, in the same context, the emergence of movements dedicated to the recovery and revalorization of traditional sewing practices. By articulating economic, symbolic, and identity dimensions, the study contributes to understanding sewing as a living social practice and to recognizing the craft of these professionals as an expression of the memory that crosses the making of sewing in Campo Grande (MS).