Prepared for the Board of Trade by the Ministry of Information in 1943 this publication gives the hints & tips needed to make clothing last longer at a time when rationing & severe shortages meant that the average household were unable to replenish their worn out wardrobe. The ' Make Do & Mend' campaign was intended to help get the last possible ounce of wear from clothing & household items & the hints in this book were tested & approved by the Board of Trade Make Do & Mend Advisory Panel a body of practical people mostly women. The book aimed to help you: to keep clothes looking trim as long as they had to last; to renovate children's outgrown clothes so cleverly that none is ever wasted; to turn every scrap of good material possessed to advantage; to keep household linen in good repair; & to make do with things you already had instead of buying new.