2081. If your dress is turned up, spit on it, and turn it down, to get a new one.

2082. If the hem of a dress is turned up, and someone calls the wearer's attention to it, the wearer will get a new dress..........................Blue Grass

2083. If the hem of a girl's dress is turned up, the person calling her attention to this fact will get a new dress.............................Blue Grass

2084. If a girl's dress turns up and she spits on it, she will become wealthy.

2085. If a part of the hem of your skirt is turned up, and you spit on it, you will have a joyful day.

2086. If your skirt turns up, you will catch a sweetheart.

2087. If you tear a hole in a new dress before it is washed, you will have good luck.......Western Kentucky

2088. It is a sign of bad luck to tear your dress behind..............................Western Kentucky

2089. If you drop ink on a new white dress, you may look for company.

2090. If your underskirt hangs, you will have to shovel coal...............................Mountains

2091. If your petticoat hangs lower than your skirt, your father loves you better than your mother does.

2092. If a woman kicks up her dress behind, she is a thief.

2093. After a number of boys have been in swimming, the boy who after dressing puts on his cap or hat first will have good luck.

2094. If a boy or a man comes into the house with his hat on, he will have bad luck.

2095. It causes bad luck to place your hat higher than your head.

2096. It brings bad luck to lay a hat on a bed.

2097. If you put two hats on your head, you will get a whipping...................Louisville Negroes

2098. If you put on two hats, you will get a double-whipping........................Louisville Negroes

2099. If a wife loses her apron, she will lose her husband.

2100. If you lose your apron, you will lose your best friend.

2101. If a woman drops her apron, she will lose one of her friends............................Mountains

2102. "A stitch in time saves nine" (felt by many as a superstition.)

2103. To sew a garment that you are wearing is a sign of bad luck or death.

2104. If you mend a garment on you, there will be a slander about you with as many words as you put stitches into the garment.............Mountains

2105. You can avert the hard luck that follows the mending of a garment while you are wearing it by holding a straw in your mouth.

2106. If you talk while sewing something that is on you, a lie will be told about you for every stitch taken while you were talking.

2107. It causes bad luck to sew new pieces on an old garment ......................Blue Grass Negroes

2108. If you leave the bastings in a dress, the dress is not paid for.

2109. It brings bad luck to sew polka-dotted goods............................North-eastern Kentucky

2110. You will have bad luck if you make clothes for people who are ill......................Blue Grass

2111. If any kind of garment is made or bought for a sick person, that person will never get well.. Mountains

2112. If you tear a garment, you may break the spell of a bad luck sign that is connected with it.

2113. It brings good luck to put on clothes accidentally wrong side out.

2114. Clothes put on in the morning wrong side out, if changed at twenty minutes past one, will bring good luck.

2115. If you put a garment on wrong side out and discover the mistake yourself, you may change it without bad luck.

2116. A person wearing a garment inside out will have good luck if he turns the garment right side out at midnight.

2117. After you have on your clothes wrong side out, it is bad luck to change.

2118. If you put your clothes on wrong side out and someone else than you takes them off, good luck remains .................North-eastern Kentucky

2119. If you burn a hole in a new garment and wear it, there will be a death.

2120. If two women help a third to dress, the youngest of the three will die.

2121. If you put your night gown on inside out by mistake, there will be a fire in town soon.. .Mountains

2122. It brings bad luck to the passengers if a woman dressed in black gets on a passenger train at night.

2123. It causes bad luck to meet a woman dressed in black, after midnight.

2124. It brings bad luck to put a black pin into a white dress..................North-eastern Kentucky

2125. It brings bad luck to put a white pin into a black dress..................North-eastern Kentucky

2126. It brings bad luck to put on the left stocking first.

2127. A hole in your stocking indicates that you will get a letter. The size of the letter depends on the size of the hole.........................Blue Grass

2128. It is well for an aviator to wear a lady's stocking about his neck.

2129. If you dress one foot entirely before beginning the other, you will have bad luck.

2130. Put on the left garter and the right shoe first for luck.........................Central Kentucky

2131. Remove the left shoe and the right garter first for luck........................Central Kentucky

2132. If you put your left shoe on before your right, you will have a headache.................Mountains

2133. To put the left shoe on the right foot is to produce misfortune for yourself.

2134. If you pull off your right shoe first, you will never have toothache.....................Blue Grass

2135. It causes bad luck to walk with one shoe off and one shoe on.

2136. It brings bad luck to walk around in one shoe because you will measure your mother's grave..................................Louisville Negroes

2137. If a child walks about with one shoe off and the other on, he will receive as many whippings as he takes steps.........................Mountains

2138. As many steps as you take in one shoe, so many steps do you take into trouble.........Mountains

2139. For every step that you take with one shoe on and one off, you will have one year of misfortune.......................................Mountains

2140. Never lace one shoe until you have put the other one on............................Mountains

2141. It causes bad luck to button the top button of your shoe first...............North-eastern Kentucky

2142. If the soles of your shoes are of black leather, your teeth will become loose...............Blue Grass

2143. If your shoe-string conies untied, somebody is talking about you.

2144. Your left shoe-string untied shows that someone is speaking evil of you.

2145. Your right shoe-string untied shows that someone is speaking well of you.

2146. "If you wear your shoes out on the side, you will be a rich man's bride."

2147. "If you wear your shoes out on the toe, You will spend money as you go."

2148. If you wear your shoes out in the middle of the sole first, you will be rich some day.. Central Kentucky

2149. Put your shoes with the points away from the bed, so that bad dreams may walk away from you.

2150. If you set your shoes under the bed always turn the toes out. To turn them in is a sign of bad luck during the night.

2151. If you put your shoes above your head, on the table or on the bed, you will have very bad luck.

2152. If you put your shoes higher than your head in the closet, you will never be married.

2153. It brings bad luck to place your stockings in your shoes when you are going to bed.

2154. Be sure to place your shoes at night with the inner sides against each other.

2155. If you spit on your shoe accidentally, you will get a new pair of shoes..................Mountains

2156. If you wear a hairpin in your shoe, you will meet a good friend.

2157. Put sugar into your shoe, to coax your trousers down.......................Central Kentucky

2158. If your shoes squeak, they are not paid for.

2159. An old shoe is a sign of good luck.

2160. If you burn an old shoe, you will have rheumatism.

2161. If you lose one of your rubbers, it is a sign that you are going to lose one of your friends.