Word: retrimming
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...Consumer Division told the nation's housewives some facts of life this week. That they had to be told would have made their mothers and grandmothers blush for them. OPA's advice: reline coats, cut down adults' garments for children, reknit sweaters, retrim dresses, use the needle-&-thread at home to produce, remake, refurbish family clothing. All this would help the war effort, vowed...
Reasons for the upsurge in neckwear are twofold : 1) to retrim last year's dresses, and to trick up this year's limited wardrobe, 2) to allure and astonish men, who are anciently susceptible to a frill at the throat. To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs...
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