WOMEN'S BOOTEES
ARE HELPING BRITAIN TO PAY FOR THE WAR Despite the war, British craftsmen arc upholding, a tradition which runs back to the day of King AI j fred, who not only launched the British Navy but founded the country's footwear industry by training prisoners of war to make boots for his Anglo-Saxon soldiers. Overseas demand for British footwear has so grown in war time that one manufacturer of hand-made shoes has just opened a new factory with four months' orders on hand, most of them from Empire and foreign countries. Footwear actually shipped from Britain showed an increase during the first six months j of war and manufacturers state that they are continuing to send abroad more shoes in both medium and high grades. Empire countries, U.S.A., and ccitain European centres are the leading buyers. U.S.A. are buying welt shoes and the more expensive riding boots, and bootees are selling not only there but also in North Europe and Switzerland. Every two months British manufacturers arc now creating new styles to meet the demand for fashion. shoes.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 164, 24 May 1940, Page 6
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179WOMEN'S BOOTEES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 164, 24 May 1940, Page 6
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