DRESSMAKING SUPERSTITIONS.
The dressmakers, in London, have been busy recently By chance. I waS talking to one and learned to my surpriso that they have many, superstitions, says a writer. " 1 shall be hard at. it till midnight (this'was on Thursday)," she Baid, "for nothing would, induce mo to put • my scissors into a piecß of stuff on a Friday." She also said she would nevor put in tho left sleeve at a fitting. "Anyhow," she concluded, "I am. in for some bad luck because I spilt my pins this morning-" Do other trades, I wonder, have their tpecinl superstitious £
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20602, 28 June 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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