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We used to have to recycle all the time. We’d turn the shirt collars and if they were completely worn out, then you’d cut the tails off the shirts and shape a collar out of that.

And sheets, if they were worn in the middle, you’d cut them in half and put sides together and stitch down the middle. We’d make pillowcases out of old sheets too.

My mother got hold of a parachute at the end of the war — they sold off a lot of them at the airfields — and she made a lot of our underwear from it and it was all yellow.

They also sold off the big grey army blankets and I remember Mum made me a lovely coat.

I think women could adapt anything.

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