EXIT THE PETTICOAT
SHORT SKIRTS TO BLAME
1 "BUY COTTON GOODS"
(Received 2nd May, noon.) , •LONDON, Ist May. ■ : 'j A national cotton week will begin on sth May, ami wil] include efforts throughout Britain to improve the home cotton market. Ten thousand shop windowsi will be exhibiting cotton goods. The chairman of. the .campaign (Mr. Holroyd) blamed short skirts for the almost total disappearance of the petticoat, the demand for home sales being 400,000,000 yards less yearly than before the war.- . •
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 9
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81EXIT THE PETTICOAT Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 9
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