Please help, does any one know another name for a sewing kit, that you have in the army or in hotels? thanks?


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in the navy its called a housewife, still have mine,my dads, and my grandads


A little sewing kit
In the army it's called a housewife, I still have mine.
mending kit
Housewife, but I'm told sailors pronounce it 'hussif'. They're like that tho; bosun, rollocks, focsle etc.
An etui. Pronounced ettwee
Housemaid though I think that goes back to WW1
It is (or was? I am old) commonly called a "house wife", when I was in the Army.

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