BIG ECONOMIES
AS RESULT OF CLOTHES RATIONING EXPERIENCE IN BRITAIN. SYSTEM WORKING WELL. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. An unofficial survey of two years of clothes rationing reveals that the system has reduced the British public’s expenditure on clothes by 600 million sterling. It had also saved 500,000 tons of shipping and released more than 500,000 workers for essential war industries. Women, in the first year of rationing, spent 18 per cent of their coupons on stockings, 15 per cent on footwear, 19 per cent on underwear, 23 per cent on outer clothing, and 25 per cent on other needs. Men spent 26 per cent of their coupons on shirts and underwear, 17 per cent on footwear, 15 per cent on socks, 22 per cent on suits and jackets, and 20 per cent on other needs. Figures for the second year were similar, except that women used fewer coupons on underwear. Girls of sixteen were the heaviest users of coupons. A Board of Trade official said people had played the game remarkably well. The system on the whole operated like clockwork.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1943, Page 4
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