Storing Men's Suits

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 143, 20 March 1942, Page 23

Storing Men's Suits

Dear Aunt Daisy, You were inquiring about storing the suits of the men gone overseas. One lady I know, who has her two sons away, brushed their suits well, placed them on hangers and put in the sun for about two hours. After bringing them in, she folded the trousers with a sheet of newspaper between the legs, then put the coat on the hanger, made a kind of envelope of newspaper, and put this over the coat, well covering the same. They say that printers’ ink helps to keep away moths. Of course, I think it would be a great help to take the suits out occasionally and put them in

the sun.

V.

A.

(Christchurch).

And here is another letter on the same subject, which is of interest to so many people just now. Dear Aunt Daisy, You were asking for suggestions about storing suits of the boys gone overseas. In the last war, a friend of ours went. away with the main body, leaving a new heavy blue suit with my sister. He was away five years, and had forgotten all about the suit, but when he came back, my sister handed him the suit as good as when he left it. All she had done was to hang it on the line every few weeks. She did not pack it up at all, but kept it on a hanger in her wardrobe. Naturally, he was very pleased to be handed an’ almost new suit, and he got years of wear out of ‘it afterwards.

A Waltham

Listener