"So she is," she said.

"Probably the poor thing ain't had time to finish mendin' 'em.

It's a good deal of a job, I guess.

She told me once that that Hammond man wore his inside clothes till they wa'n't anything BUT mendin', just hung together with patches, as you might say.

His suits and overcoats are all right enough 'most always, but he can't seem to bear to spend money for anything underneath.
Perhaps he figgers that patches are good as anything else, long's they don't show.