APPAREL

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• #1376

  If you mend your apron or dress while on you, some one will lie about you.

  Maine and Alabama.
• #1377

  As many stitches as you take (in mending a garment while wearing it), so many lies will be told about you.

  New Hampshire.
• #1378

  If a garment is mended while being worn, it is a sign the wearer will do something he is ashamed of before the week is out.

  Newton, Mass.
• #1379

  If one mends his clothes upon his back,
  It is a sign his trouble will never come back.

  Connecticut.
• #1380

  Basting threads left in a garment signify that it is not yet paid for.

  Massachusetts and Ohio.
• #1381

  Put your clothes on the wrong side out and you’ll have a present before the week is out.

  Peabody, Mass.
• #1382

  If, when dressing, one puts on any of his clothing wrong side out, it is a sign that he will soon receive a present.

  Alabama.
• #1383

  If you happen to put your skirt on wrong side out, you are likely to get a new one.

  Alabama.
• #1384

  You mustn’t talk when some article of dress you are wearing is being mended, or some one will talk or tell lies about you.

• #1385

  In dressing for a journey, if you wish to have good luck, dress the right foot first.

  Belleville, Ohio.
• #1386

  If the hem of a lady’s dress turns up, she is sure to have a new one.

  Alabama.
• #1387

  While sewing on a garment, should you sew it to your dress by mistake, as many stitches as you take, so many lies will be told about you.

  Baldwinsville, N. Y.
• #1388

  If you break your needle in making a dress, you will live to wear it out. If you tear a hole in a new dress, the first time wearing it, you will have a new one before that is worn out.

  Deer Isle, Me.
• #1389

  If you break a needle in sewing a new gown, it is a sure sign you will live to wear out the garment.

  Holyoke, Mass.
• #1390

  If you break your needle in making a garment, or have to rip out some of it, you will live to wear it out.

  Boston, Mass.
• #1391

  If a white petticoat falls below your dress, it is a sign that your father loves you better than your mother.

  New England.
• #1392

  Crooked pins are a sign that the owner is an old maid.

  Province of Quebec, Can.
• #1393

  Should a friend withdraw a ring from the finger of another, it is a sign it will break friendship. The owner should take off the ring and hand it to the friend.

  Baldwinsville, N. Y.
• #1394

  A hole in the toe of your shoe or stocking, so as to show the toe, means a letter.

  Cape Breton.
• #1395

  Old shoes, particularly the soles, were often buried by negro servants on Monday morning to keep the devil down through the week.

  Chestertown, Md.
• #1396

  Save the old shoes to throw after the carriage, when any of the family start on a journey; it will insure a safe return.

  Massachusetts.
• #1397

  Wear the boot (or shoe) on the side, a rich man’s bride;
  On the toe, spend as you go;
  On the heel, love to do weel;
  On the ball, live to spend all.

  Boston.
• #1398

  Hole in the toe, spend as you go:
  Hole at the side, be a rich bride;
  Hole at the heel, spend as you feel;
  Hole on the ball, live to spend all.

  New York.
• #1399

  Wear at the toe, live to see woe;
  Wear at the side, live to be a bride;
  Wear at the ball, live to spend all;
  Wear at the heel, live to save a deal.

  New York.
• #1400

  Wear on the toe,
  Spend as you go;
  Wear on the ball,
  Love to spend all.
  Wear on the side,
  You’ll be a rich bride.

• #1401

  Of stockings:—

  Wear at the toe,
  Spend as you go:
  Wear at the heel,
  Spend a good deal;
  Wear at the ball,
  You’ll live to spend all.

  South Carolina.