Hello from the Left Coast, Seattle area.
I often buy bags of scraps at the thrift store that are obviously from garment construction. When I young and had a figure, I did a lot of garments and costuming but then when I got... less shapely... I gave up fitting things because things didn't fit anyway and decided to give up entirely on garments and concentrate on quilting. Now that I'm smaller again, my excuse for not sewing garments is I don't have a serger. Sure, I could get a serger but that's not the point!