NOW NO BAR TO FASHIONS
Received Sundav, 7' p.m. WASmXGTON, Oct. 19. Tlre Uivilian Production Adniinistration has announced a decision to end the wartime order which, since 1942, limited almost everv feature of Women 's styles. 'idie administration said -tlie nmasuve ichieved the purpo.se of saviug material and preventing radical atvle clianges while cotton, wool a-nd . ravon were xlesperately short, 'but now the textilfevAituiltiou was nnrclt xiupr'oved with woollens abuftdarit and rayons and cotton nearer demand than at any time since the order was made. Xevertheless restraint was still desirable in the use of scarce fabrics. Longer and fullcr skirts can be expected as the result of the abrogation of the order, which had also banned three jrieco ensembles and restricted slecve cull's, pockets and trimmings.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1946, Page 5
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126NOW NO BAR TO FASHIONS Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1946, Page 5
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