:: Darn it

Posted by Sonja on July 25, 2008

I’m a lucky girl because I usually don’t have to go back to work till the second week of January after Christmas holidays. So last January, in my ‘free week’, I did a LOT of darning. I went through my wardrobe and sewed up all those ripped underarms, torn linings and loose buttons. It was nice to be able to wear everything again.
Since then I’ve kept it up. The Home Front got it right with its Make Do And Mend slogan during the war. I bought a little book at the Imperial War Museum that’s a reproduction of a ‘Make Do And Mend’ leaflet the government issued during the war, full of tips and tricks on how to unpick old jumpers and sew them into socks, or put pretty patches over holes. They’ve also got a Mend, Make or Spend? online game.
There’s always the odd thing I realise I’m not wearing because a button’s missing or a waistband needs taking in, but as I go along I backstitch my wardrobe back to life.
If you can Mend, you don’t have to Make Do.

P.S. I do not advise the mending of trousers while the owner is wearing them, as shown above. That could lead to a nasty accident…

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One Response to “Darn it”

1. Peter says:
   July 27th, 2008 at 11:52 am

   It might just be me, but I really can’t help but think she’s probably not mending his trousers….

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