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Originally Posted by CAM
People still do it though.
Chris
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In the rag trade, where military clothing used to be recycled for shoddy, rags and felt, people were employed to unstitch cloth badges and metal buttons before the clothing was shredded as they clogged up the machines.
Nowadays, it would probably be too expensive and time consuming to unstitch them and they are cut out with scissors. The damage to the uniform doesn't matter as they are going to be shredded.