You can imagine my excitement when I scored this 1950s (?) trim in a grab bag of sewing supplies. It was new in the cellophane and seemed perfect for my most recent sewing project. So I basted it onto the top edge of a mandarin collared jacket and double checked my sewing... ...my sewing line was dead on, but the trim began to self-destruct! One loop had pulled out but when I went to fix it with a few invisible hand stitches, I noticed another that was loose. One by one the looped braid…