Stocking Legs for Drawers

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1813, 18 July 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

Stocking Legs for Drawers

The egg of wornout stockings may be [ made into nice, warm, snug underdrawers for little children, many of whom, for laok ot care or the means, doubtless shiver through the present cold weather, with only I short, thin cotton garments to protect their j limbs. It was not a oase of necessity ; but. said an ingenious mother: '- 1 would rather i save the money for Bpme pretty trifle for her that I cannot make than buy new drawers that would hardly be better than these, throw away this good material and go without the gift of ribbon or lace." So she removed the feet, ripped the hems at the tops, made a straight cut eight inches long (of oourse the length must vary to suit eaoh individual oase) down from the top of eaoh leg, trimmed off about two inches at one side of the top of the opening thus formed, bo as to make the front shorter than the baok, faced both sides of tht opening with a narrow bias band of cotton, lapped one short side an inch or more over the other, and stitched them both into a broad binding together. Then they were tried on and out off to allow for a narrow, feather-stitched hem at the ankle, and finished with footstraps, to aid in the prooess of drawing the little stockings on over them. These described are for little children. By placing the tops farther apart on the band, and leaving projecting ends of the band to button at the baok, they may be used for larger ohildren ; the tops then come up over the hips like a broad strap ; they protect the limbs jußt as well, whioh is the great objeot to be attained, Cream white fieece-lined stockings are excellent for these garments, being quite warm and very durable. If one does not need to praotioe such eoonomies for one's own family it would Burely be a kind aot to colleot several pairs of good stookings legs and give them to some poor mother of little children.

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