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.
Superstition #1388
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1388.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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