make do and mend

In the second world  war they were only aloud to buy 1 item of clothing a year as the ships that were shiping in cargo from other countries kept getting bombed by the Germans so you had to make do with what you had. This is when people started a campain known as the "make do and mend".

What the make do and mend campaigners did instead of going and buying a new item of clothing was to get an old item of clothing and customise it.

But soon after the war ended people decided that this was such a good idea that they caried on using the teqnuique "make do and mend" people still use it today