LARGE & SMALL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1941, Page 6

LARGE & SMALL

TREATED ALIKE IN BRITAIN THE CLOTHING RATIONING SCHEME. SOME' ILLEGAL SUNDAY TRADING. 'Bv Tel'.’grnph—Prr.ss Association —Copyright) (RecTvod Tb/s Dry. 12 35 n.m,' LONDON. June 1. •i-iw Dom'd -Ji’ Trade has ruled that col-pons will be available for who mi' ll su rc:'d"r I more coupor::'. limn small persons. No :C : .'.”e being made for film ■: .•>-••> a ■•.ls'.s and >-.'■. ryiyn coup 'ns ; arc ■.".;■;!.'bi? for w;'t<:mg.:. itmCLa!:- ■■" - ! occesii'iis. ■ ' ■■■■-':■. domcrBl:s'?lnn: cur-lains arc e.l ■< s( Mi i'll ' nys f r which fabric is oho/n without a coup"n A boy u-; produce his girl friend’s ration ■'p.rd f be wishes to buy her sil’* smcl'lnrs or other g'fls of clothing. The fashion trade says fashions will 'bo more temperate, because women • will not want to be conspicuous if they I are compelled to wear the same garI ment season after season. Dyers cleaners and renovators expect a boom. Men and women shoppers crowded six and seven deep around stalls in the East Street Walworth Market where, despite an official ruling that the rationing of clothes applied to Sunday markets, all kinds of clothes were sold. Women angrily pushed aside a reporter who asked about coupons. A stallholder said: “We never read the Sunday papers here.”