Uncategorized

Make Do And Mend

admin

Most of the content on this site is created by our users, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC.


  • Navigation menu.
  • make do and mend?
  • Dyspraxie: une approche clinique et pratique (La) (French Edition);
  • Make Do & Mend | Home.
  • Mystery Train (Pitt Poetry Series)?
  • make do and ˈmend.

The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites referenced. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules , please click here. For any other comments, please Contact Us.

Make do and mend - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

Home Explore the BBC. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Find out more about page archiving. You are browsing in: Winifred Barber Location of story: South Wales Background to story: Advertisers encourage us to constantly buy new and make our old clothes become obsolete.

Make Do and Mend

Today we can laugh at some of the problems and worries of the 20s, 30s and 40s but in the dire economic circumstance currently being experienced in the UK and the ever increasing danger of global warming the relevance of MDM is just as apparent. This website is not advocating the return of clothes rationing.

We can learn a lot from the Make Do and Mend movement about how to look after our clothes and how to make them last longer. Sewing on a button or darning a hole in a jumper is far more satisfying than going out and buying a new one. Please click on the links above for Make Do and Mend Projects and for Hints and Tips on how you can make your clothes last longer. Take or leave a Tip Supplies better. You can make quite nice puddings with potatoes or carrots instead of flour.

Hannah Dazeley

I have lost two stone since the war began. Just as the s make do and mend ethos is having a revival today, so the second world war campaign was simply a reinvention from the first, says Susan Grayzel, professor of history at the University of Mississippi and author of Women and the First World War Routledge.

The middle classes had to learn lessons of scarcity and sacrifice pretty quickly. During the s the state looked at those lessons and began to formulate the make do and mend strategy ready for implementation if another war came. This lived memory still resonates down the generations.

Make Do And Mend - St. Anne

Kathy Hall, from Long Buckby says: Old washing-up brushes and tooth brushes are ideal for doing service for household cleaning purposes. When I visited grandma as a child, the toilet was outside, with a water butt to catch the rainwater which was used to flush the loo; waste was considered an incomprehensible sin.