CLOTHES RATIONING IN BRITAIN
SPENDING REDUCED BY £600,000,000 (Rec. 7 p.m.) , LONDON, June 1. An unofficial survey of two years of clothes’ rationing reveals that the system has reduced the British public’s expenditure on clothes by £600,000,000. It has also saved 500,000 tons of shipping and released more than 500,000 workers for essential war industries. Women in the first year of rationing spent 18 per cent, of their coupons on stockings, 15 per cent, on footwear, 19 per cent, on underwear, 23 per cent, on outer clothing, and 25 per cent, on other needs. Men spent 26 per cent, of their coupons on shirts and underwear, 17 per cent.' on 'footwear, 15 per cent, on socks, 22 per cent, on suits and jackets, and 20 per cent, on other needs. The figures for the second year were similar, except that women used fewer coupons on underwear and more on outer clothes, and men fewer on suits. Boys between 14 and 16 were the heaviest users of coupons. A Board of Trade official said that the people had played the game remarkably well, and the system, on the whole, had operated like clockwork.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23964, 3 June 1943, Page 3
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