Sister Susie's Saucy Soft Short Shirts (For Soldiers)
» e When the fashion house of Molyneaux, Paris, re-opened for a comparatively miniature parade of 40 new models near the end of October, upper-crust customers tried to set a good example by knitting in time to the stately steps of the mannequins; while, on the English home front, the Chairman of the Royal Navy War Comforts Committee, retired Vice-Admiral Hubert Seeds Monroe, asked all patriotic knitters to keep off the fluffy Angora and stick to two- and even three-ply yarns, The price of wool was held down to eightpence per ounce, only a penny above pre-war rates, and such journals as the Daily Telegraph (which includes the Morning Post) found "an object lesson in concentration and kindly devotion in the sight of women adding a few stitches between stops in a train or omnibus, purling two or casting off between glimpses of Mr. Cooper and Miss Colbert on the screen..." Looking on from America, Time recalled the 1914-18 song: Sister Susie’s sewing shirts for soldiers, Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young Susie shows, Some soldiers send epistles, Say they'd sooner sleep in thistles, Than the saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 27, 29 December 1939, Page 22
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204Sister Susie's Saucy Soft Short Shirts (For Soldiers) New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 27, 29 December 1939, Page 22
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