Help - moths ate my suit...

[JumpJockey]

Have just got a summer suit down from the loft and there are little tiny holes and one big bugger of a hole where moths (I assume) have been at it. Grrrr. The fabric is a very lightweight wool, and it's a kind of grey marl pattern so I doubt I can just a) patch the holes (would be very obvious on the trousers) or b) colour in with a pencil

Is there any way to fix the situation? Will obviously be putting mothball/cedar up on the clothes rail, we've never had moths in the rest of the house so had assumed that the loft was safe as well.

There's nothing you can do, I wouldn't have thought, especially with a marl fabric, unless you have lots of the wool to do it: using grey/black/any other tone from the marl would look obvious. We've been fighting moths on and off for years: it's amazing the sense of achievement you get from destroying one and the despair when you see another one emerge after you think you've destroyed another possible hiding place.

Damn! I feared that might be the case. Oh well - maybe I could stick a badge on over the worst hole?! Thanks anyway and good luck eradicating them, sounds like the fun we had with those little mothy buggers that get in your kitchen cupboards.

JumpJockey - some specialist dry cleaners offer invisible mending. worth a try?