"...We
finally got the things I ordered and your shoes came so am sending them
to-gether with some socks I darned for you.
Hope the shoes fit. I think they
are pretty nice...."
--Letter from my grandmother, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Winfield, Kans., Sunday, January 10, 1943. Darning is certainly a
much rarer art in our throwaway society than it was in the frugal society of
the 1940s. My grandmother would
sometimes darn my socks, when I stayed with her in the 1970s. Darning is not, however, a lost art, as
numerous youtube videos explaining the process indicate.
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