In a message dated 10/5/2007 8:02:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Six  years!?! It would have been out of style. At least, that's what I  would
have claimed! :-)


And how many men would have cared about a suit's being 6 years out of  style?
 
Real examples--
My grandmother made me a winter coat from a Harris tweed man's suit--not  
sure how she got the suit.  (My grandfather was long gone by then)
 
And my brother cut up my mom's gold satin blouse to use for some kind  of 
backdrop on his model railroad.  He saw it wadded up in the basement and  
thought 
it was fair game.  Since the damage was already done, I also used  some for 
doll clothes.  (Satin wasn't common in our household.)
 
Ann Wass
 
PS  I had a home ec. textbook from WWII--it also recommended  unraveling an 
old sweater and re-using the yarn.



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