HINTS ON MENDING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18322, 12 August 1921, Page 8

HINTS ON MENDING

The : other day (says a writer in the Daily Mail) I watched a Belgian girl monding some "undies," and came to the conclusion tjiat few Englishwomen of this generation .wbuld have performed the task half ' as wtjk The mend was a small hole in a t'hemjjg, and the girl cut it away into a m neat LRttle square. Into this she placed a tinyi: square of material that was not absolutely -new, but of much the same texture 'aa the chemise, and then she tacked a piece of papor round tho hole, and also round th« patch on tho back of the garment to keep the patch in place. After this she neatlv darned the patch over the join, •'! only'" taking the threads just across the juncture, and when the paper was removes! it would have needed very sharp eyes Jo have seen the mend at all. She told nie ape does all mending of this sort in the Sine way, the only little trouble being to got the piece to be inserted to fit the cut Square., exactly. This she docs by measuring With a piece of thin cardboard. A lioje made in a camisole just under the §arm was neatly sewn round and covered with a lace motif, a corresponding hole t>ein|f .made and covered on the same place.' l uncter the other armhole. It seems French and Belgian women mend many of their and their children's undergarment! on these lines, when an Enfirlisliwom«) jfv.ojtld usually he content with a cm may pafch. Thfce is little doubt that our Conti- • rental sisters are i'nr more thrifty in renovating undergarments, stockings, and so on than bye are. . A aTrench mother I know patches big holes; in the stockings of her schoolboy sons Beautifully. A not too thin material is selecwd as near the colour of the hose as she An obtain, and then comes Jier really oxqupte patching, which, she says, takes far laps time than fine darning. -