#shoddy

[alliterative-endlessknot]

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is SKI/SCIENCE/SHODDY #ski #science #shoddy

[kply-industries]

Okay, now that tach is fully upside-down. What's going on with these guys?

[leveloneandup]

re—inc Creative Director Tobin Heath and CEO Christen Press visit re—inc friend and production partner Mi Jong Lee, who redefines industry and gender norms through her bold approach to design and production.

[the-vegan-muser]

I met a guy this weekend who told me he’s in a band called Shoddy and I wasn’t sure if he meant “shawty” or “shoddy,” so for some reason, my first instinct was to say “Shawty as in ‘shawty got low?’”

[vanishingsydney]

Absolute shocker. Bricked-in facade of what was probably a late Victorian-era lodging house (c.1884-89) to create extra flats in what is now an apartment building. Only the very top of the original facade survives and is mostly obscured from view at street level. Obviously added-on well before heritage regulations became a thing in the planning approval process. Just plain awful. Camperdown.

[thatsbelievable]

[todaysdocument]

Letter from Isaac Comstock to the Van Wyck Committee Regarding Shoddy Blankets, 2/3/1861

“These blankets contain fifteen percent wool the balance entirely made from shoddy.” 

“Shoddy” meant woolen waste or old rags. These blankets would initially look fine, but would fall apart very quickly.

File Unit: Committee Papers of the Select Committee on Government Contracts, 1861 - 1863

Series: Records of Early Select Committees, 1793 - 1909

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789 - 2015

Transcription:

Sandy Hill Washington Co

N.Y. Feb 3/61

Hon John Covode

     My Dear Sir

          As your committee are searching after frauds by government contractors &c I feel it my duty as a citizen to render what aid I can in so important a matter.

     At this place and but a few rods from my residence the firms of Lee & Allen have a Woolen Factory or speaking more correctly a shoddy factory  It has been working for the last six months on Government or Army blankets.  They turn out about one hundred per day all carefully marked U.S.  These blankets contain fifteen percent wool the balance entirely made from shoddy.  After they are manufactured thay are consigned to R. M. Van Sickler and Co. commission merchants at Albany who have a Government contract for supplying

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Army blankets made last  summer with Major Vinton the Government contracting officer of New York  The Government contract calls for all wool these blankets contain just 15 per cent the balance entirely of shoddy.  There is another similar establishment to the one at this place at Balston Spa [illegible words] by W. W. Gregg & Co thay also supply Van Sickler with the same kind of blankets to help fill his contract.  Of course Major Vinton can not personally inspect these blankets but some Government office must & how thay pass the test (If one is made) I leave you to judge.  I believe that I can put [?] one of them back into shoddy in less than five minutes  with my own hands[?]  If these facts shall be of any value I shall feel paid for my trouble and am ready to verify what I say.

     Being an entire stranger to you as to who I am I respectfully  refer you to the Hon W. H. Seward Secty of State who knows me personally

                                                                                                    Very truly yours                                                                                                   

                                                                                                     Isaac N. Comstock

[rvexillology]

Shoddy Arabia

from /r/vexillologycirclejerk Top comment: Shoddy's like a melody in my head