Rationed Stockings
ONLY TEN COLOURS Women will only have 10 colours to choos3 from when buying stockings this year. Once they had more than six hundred, between many of which only experts could tell the difference. The 10 shades contained in the 1940 colour card of the British Colours Council Hosiery Advisory Committee, are:—Burnt, nude, carib, goblin, Newmarket, mist beige, graphite, dryad, gun metal, vogue, copper skin. Copper skin is a neutral beige suitable for those wearing blues and browns. Burnt, nude, dryad, carib and goblin are warm colours, and tho mist beige and vogue denote the trend towards wine-tinted hosiery. These colours will apply to medium and lower grade pure silk, rayon and “mixture” stockings.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 5, 6 January 1940, Page 5
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116Rationed Stockings Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 5, 6 January 1940, Page 5
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