MINISTER’S PYJAMA CORD PROBLEM
LONDON, October 5. The President of the Board of Trade (Mr Harold Wilson) raised a very pertinent point when he was entertained at lunch last week by representatives of the clothing trade. “When you make men’s pyjamas,” he said, ‘ why don’t you put a little stitch in the back of the girdle so that the damn thing does not pull out the whole time?” Mr Wilson added that he had wasted a large number of man hours (who han’t?) when he had neither his wife nor a safety pin handy, in opening up the stitches of his pyjamas with a penknife to get hold of the end of the trouser cord.
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Grey River Argus, 6 October 1948, Page 8
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