ARSENAL FASHIONS.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 February 1918, Page 3

ARSENAL FASHIONS.

In Munition Lasses Dr. Foxwell relates how Woolwich Arsenal broke into a riot of colour. Girls in some departments were able to indulge their passion for flowers, but in the danger buildings nothing extraneous to the works must enter. The substitution, of coloured ribbons for the Government shoe laces was the result. The fashion was introduced by the Cap Shop girls, who appeared one morning with blight ribbon in their shoQS_ The following morning, the whole factory was in the fashion. Shoes were tied with blue, pink, red and white ribbon, with anything but the Government boot lace of unfanned leather. The fashion spread to the office; the women clerks paraded the platform during the dinner hour with resplendent shoo laces. The attendants also followed suit, and dear old Auntie Ellis, the senior attendant, was discovered wearing shoe-strings of bright scarlet.