WAR SLIMMING
REDUCTION IN BRITISH WAISTLINES.
REPORTED BY TAILORS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 21.
Tailors report that the war has taken two inches off the waistline of the average British male civilian. The reasons given are the wartime diet. Home Guard exercises, A.R.P. duties, the digging for victory campaign, and the fact that there is less time for lounging.
A survey by the Leeds tailoring industry reveals these facts about the average civilian, compared with 1939. The waist is two inches smaller, the chest one inch bigger, the hips one inch smaller, the shoulders a quarter of an inch higher, and the back straighter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1941, Page 7
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105WAR SLIMMING Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1941, Page 7
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