Sentence:  ... garments had come to her which were old and worn, bearing unmistakable signs of Lotta's coarse but <WSD>reparative</WSD> energies — raiment against which her feminine niceness would have rebelled, had it been possible for her, in her misfortunes, to indulge her feminine niceness. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Tending to or intended to repair.