LEARNING TO BE A CIVILIAN
y After years in uniform thousands of girls in England are coming out, of the serviees hungry for frills and femininity — and the shops in London are rising to the occasion. At one big store, said Janet Dunbar an a BBC talk, there are special mannequin parades for Service girls, and the organisers have made a very good job of it. They knqw that the average girl coming out of the forces isn't exactly rolling iri money, so they have chosen good utility, and the more reasonablypriced non-utility wear to show at these parades. Nor have they forgotten the coupon problem. They realise that a Service girl probably has. only the haziest idea of how many coupohs she needs for hey: putfiit, so they have printed a leaflet setting out in clear tables wh^tjslae is letting herself in for. They have three catCgories "Out of Town Girl," "Town Girl" and "Business Girl," and on the other si'de of the sheet there'su I list for men — a good idea for tlie married girl who expects to do some of her husband's shopping. . • v'
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 March 1946, Page 4
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