Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1944-08-25 | Page 1 | 4-H "Make, Mend for "V" Girls Adapt Men's Discards for own Use

4-H "Make. Mend For "V" Girls Adapt Men's Discards For Own Use Wartime scarcity and high cost of clothing fabrics are serving to develop marked initiative and imagination among rural "Make1 and Mend for Victory" girls ) throughout the nation in the use of available materials both old and new. This is strikingly reflected in the garments for all occasions being designed by roundly million participants in the national na-tional 4-H clothing achievement activity, in which planning, repair, re-pair, conservation, and care of clothing are stressed. In many cases, the girls are renovating men's discarded suits, top coats, shirts, and even hats, for further use by their owners, or are adapting adapt-ing them for feminine wear. Out standing records of a-chievement a-chievement in this activity are being selected throughout the summer for county medal awards provided by the Spool Cotton Educational Bureau. The highest high-est rating county winner will be named champion, for which she will receive a trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago next December. State winners v, ill compete for national honors, twelve of whom will be awarded $200 college scholarships. In 1943, more than 425,000 girls caried 4-H clothing projects, in which they not only made 2 million mil-lion dresses, but remodeled, patched or mended 600,000 old garments their own, as well as those of members of their families.