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I was thinking of spreading a few moth balls amid my clothes (pockets and folds) in my closet.But when the box of moth balls arrived, they were covered in such dire POISON! warnings that it seems like a bad idea to even use them. Like I shouldn't use them where I might breathe them. Mustn't even touch them with my hands (so it says on the box).Yet when I was a kid, my mother always spread a few moth balls amid the clothes in her closets.

NEW YORK — If you want to be fashionable this winter, just go over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house. And then raid her closet. Styles that Granny has been wearing for years — beaded cardigans, big brooches, pleated skirts, fur-lined snow boots over pants and gold brocaded clothing — are anything but dated this season.