Fashion on a Ration
In 1942, my maternal grandfather parachuted into Greece as part of an SOE operation. I would have thought that saving his parachute was far from his mind as he liaised with the Greek resistance.
Word of the Week
Doctor : Alteration tailor.
Because a good one can fix all sorts of dodgy garments and a bad one will kill them stone dead.
Tailoring Translated
Kicking your heels : No work to do.
Tailors sit on their boards to sew, crossing one leg over the other to create a good platform on which to rest whatever you are working on. With no work the legs just dangle freely.
(On a related note - I recently found out the muscle which crosses your thigh is called the "Sartorius" muscle, named after tailors because of the way they sit)