TROUSERS POPULAR
WOMEN S GARB FOR AIR RAIDS One immediate result of a recent air-raid warning in Manchester was an increase in the sale of trousers, writes “Lucio” in the Manchester Guardian. A housewife in one northwestern suburb where the sirens had never been used in earnest before, set out the next morning to buy a pair. Her first acquaintance with the dismal sirens had not enabled her to decide, though it had raised again, those barely soluble questions of how to act in an air raid; whether to waken the children and take them out of their beds to a shelter across the garden, whether to turn the gas off at the main or use it to make tea, and so on. But it had decided her that dress-ing-gowns will not do for these occasions; impede movement, and tend to make one feel flustered even if one is not. Other women had found the same thing; the costumier had already sold in a few hours more trousers for women than she could remember selling for months, and had only three pairs left. Happily ane of the three was the right size.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21232, 1 October 1940, Page 9
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192TROUSERS POPULAR Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21232, 1 October 1940, Page 9
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