Pocket: MENDEX Pocket

MENDEX Sew-in pocket 2/6

Sourced from vintage fabric destash group on Facebook from a person in Ballarat

Research found that MENDEX supplied mending materials in the 1950s. They seemed to have sold clothing repair items such as pockets and cuff reinforcement. From the record of newspaper, they seem to have had a retail shop at 333 George street In Sydney in 1953. As 'Make Do and Mend' was practised in the 1940s due to resource shortage during WW1, these mending products may have become readily available for purchase (Clouting 2018). 

The research result of MENDEX:

SALESMAN, Young, willing, excellent future. MENDEX, Fourth Floor, 333 George Street, 3 P.M. (The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 11April 1953)

DEMONSTRATOR 10 to 4, City store Mendex Box 1726. GPO  

(The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 10 May 1951)  

Cuff Savers from  MENDEX sold in 1950s

(https://www.ebay.it/itm/C-1950-s-Mendex-Cuff-Savers-Mens-trousers-Sydney-fashion-ware-card-pants/223714849285?hash=item341671b205:g:ifkAAOSwbv9drVv9)

Reference:
Clouting, L 2018, 10 TOP TIPS FOR WINNING AT 'MAKE DO AND MEND', viewed 28 October 2019, https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/10-top-tips-for-winning-at-make-do-and-mend.

'Shame & Love - A story of fabrics -'

2020 S/S

Inspired by Boro

(traditional Japanese textile using tattered rags)

Designed, patterned & manufactured by

Yoshie Shimizu Beetham

for

Major design: 'Waste not want not'

BA of Fashion Design

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