Rag dolls (as told by Abbie)

Abbie talks about relief efforts during early World War II (before Pearl Harbor)  "We were contributing to the war efforts, not expecting to get into the war."
Mom continued, "During the war, school children were asked to bring gifts for children in Britain. These were called Bundles for Britain and they were contributions for children affected by the war. Mum (her Mom Sadie) made some rag dolls to send. They were really cute. They had yarn hair and she would pigtail their hair. She did such a good job with those dolls. She made a big project out of it. The art teacher, Mrs. Felton, liked them so much that she wanted to buy 3 of them. So she asked how much they were. The price might have been 50 cents per doll,  but the art teacher gave her 50 cents total when Mum wanted 50 cents for each doll. Mum thought the art teacher had a lot of nerve. As an art teacher, she would have known how long the rag dolls take to make and how much value they had." (Mom doesn't remember the price. Maybe a dime or a quarter. She doesn't know.)
It sounds to me (Amy) like this misunderstanding was never solved, but Mum (Sadie) complained about that art teacher.
I looked up Bundles for Britain on the internet and it was a huge undertaking started by a woman named Natalie Latham. I read the article to Mom and she doesn't know what "seaboot stockings" were.


from the internet---




Bundles for Britain was started in 1940 by Mrs. Latham as a knitting circle in a store front in New York City. Knitted goods—socks, gloves, hats, sweaters, and scarves—were made and shipped to Britain. Within Sixteen months, Latham expanded Bundles into an organization with 975 branches and almost a million contributors, and by the spring of 1941, it had delivered 40,000 sleeveless sweaters, 10,000 sweaters with sleeves, 30,000 scarves, 18,000 pairs of seaboot stockings, 50,000 pairs of socks, and 8,000 caps. By 1941, moreover, Bundles had also shipped ambulances, surgical instruments, medicines, cots, blankets, field-kitchen units, and operating tables, along with used clothing of all sorts. The total value of goods shipped reached $1,500,000; another $1,000,000 was raised in cash.