Make Do and Mend by Ministry of Information

The book aimed to help you: to keep clothes looking trim as long as they had to last to renovate children's outgrown clothes so cleverly that none is ever wasted to turn every scrap of good material possessed to advantage to keep household linen in good repair and, to make do with things you already had instead of buying new. The 'Make Do & Mend' campaign was intended to help get the last possible ounce of wear from clothing and household items and the hints in this book were tested and approved by the Board of Trade Make Do and Mend Advisory Panel, a body of practical people, mostly women. Prepared for the Board of Trade by the Ministry of Information in 1943, this publication gives the hints and tips needed to make clothing last longer at a time when rationing and severe shortages meant that the average household were unable to replenish their worn out wardrobe. It was part of a drive to help people cope with wartime supply shortages. Prepared for the Board of Trade by the Ministry of Information in 1943, this publication gives the hints and tips needed to make clothing last longer at a time. The 'Make Do & Mend' campaign was intended to help get the last possible ounce of wear from clothing and household items and the hints in this book were tested and approved by the Board of Trade Make Do and Mend Advisory Panel, a body of practical. The original was first published by the Ministry of Information in 1943. Make Do and Mend was a pamphlet issued by the British Ministry of Information in the midst of WWII. Make Do and Mend British Ministry of Information World War II Vintage Style Thrifty Fashion Essential T-Shirt make do and mend stickers make do and.

Prepared for the Board of Trade by the Ministry of Information in 1943, this publication gives the hints and tips needed to make clothing last longer at a time when rationing and severe shortages meant that the average household were unable to replenish their worn out wardrobe. The delightful reminder of the techniques for household economics extolled by the wartime government was published in 1943, as part of the Make do and Mend campaign.

Make Do and Mend by Ministry of Information