Scorched Trousers

New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 439, 21 November 1947, Page 26

Scorched Trousers

Dear Aunt Daisy, Recently, while ironing my husband’s new suit with brown paper in order to remove fat stains, I scorched the trousers rather badly. The suit ig made of a coarse brown-striped herringbone worsted material. If you know of any method of removing the scorch I would be grateful if you would let. me know. C.M.W., Wellington. I think your only hope is the starch paste method. If the ptofessional cleaners cannot rernove the mark, then it may be too difficult for this pet method of mine. But I do know that it removed a vety bad scorch ftom a sutvray pleated skirt on which a girl had. actually left a hot iron standing while she answered the telephone! Make a thick plaster of starch and cold water; and after having dampened the scorched cloth, put on the plaster, and put the trousers out on the grass, if possible. Leave on 24 hours, before lifting off the paste, datnping it as it becomes dry. If left out on the grass all night (as the

skirt was) it naturally gets damp, and that is excellent. Then flake off the paste, and the scorch mark should be much fainter, or even gone. You can repeat the whole treatment, if necessary; or follow, up by sponging with glycerine. Now, for your comfort, I will add a copy of a letter fromm a boy who had the same trouble with his. g00d new grey flannel sports trousers.