A Brainwave in School Socks
Dear Aunt Daisy, I must pass on the result of my good "brainwave." Last year, after the holidays, my boy needed school socks with coloured school tops. Well, they are very dear, and he already had six old pairs whose tops were still good, (Continued on next page)
(Continued from previous page) Now, I had been buying quite good black knitted socks for his father, which wore very well for his work; so I had my son try them on, as they both take a number 5 shoe. They fitted all right, so I boug1t six pairs at 1/11 a pair, cut off the school tops of his six old pairs, including about 2 inches of leg, and sewed these old tops on to the six new pairs of socks. They have now been worn about twelve months, and though darned, they will still last awhile; while the tops are still almost as good as new, and have more than another year’s wear in them. I made a double row of sewing where the tops are attached. Boys are very hard on socks, and mine has two and a half miles to walk each way to school. As for the old socks, I unravelled the legs for darning. That may
sound "Scotch," but I was brought up to waste nothing that can possibly be used in any way.
Washdyke
(Timaru). |
An excellent way, ‘too, to be brought up. One of the good things which we are learhing from the difficulties of wartime is to avoid waste!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 144, 27 March 1942, Page 22
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