TROUSERS POPULAR

Evening Star, Issue 23696, 2 October 1940, Page 10

TROUSERS POPULAR

GARB FOR AIR RAIDS One immediate result of a recent air raid warning in Manchester was an increase in tho sale of trousers, writes “ Lucio,” in the ‘ Manchester Guardian.’ A housewife in one north-west-ern suburb where the sirens had never been used in earnest before set out tho next morning to buy a pair. Her first acquaintance with the dismal sirens had not enabled her to decide, though it had raised again, those barely soluble questions of bow to act in an air raid: whether to waken the children and take them out of their beds to a shelter across the garden, whether to turn the gas off at the main or to use it to make tea, and so on. But it bad decided her that dressing gowns will not do for these occasions; they impede movement, and tend to make one feci flustered even if one is

not. Other women had found the same thing; the costumier had already sold in a few hours more trousers for women than she could remember selling for mouths, and had only three pairs left. Happily one of the three was the right size.