“COUPON DESTITUTION”
MADE APPARENT AT ETON
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September 24.
Most of the 1060 boys at Eton College today are wearing second-hand clothes, boots and top hats. Hundreds are even making their own white ties from paper. The “Daily Mail’s correspondent says: “I have seen sights at Eton that would have horrified Etonians —boys with patches on the scats of their striped trousers and hob-nails on their shoes.
“These fantastic changes in Eton’s sartorial appearance, hitherto the very pattern of dignity, are the result of the coupon destitution which is seriously affecting all public schools. Large numbers of Etonians just starting the first term come equipped with their elder brothers’ discarded clothes, boots and toppers.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1943, Page 3
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118“COUPON DESTITUTION” Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1943, Page 3
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