COULD OUR CLOTHES BE BETTER?
AN underwear for the O.S. size be made more glamorous and feminirte? Why cannot the standard sizes of all makes of clothing be uniform? These were the sort of questions speakers for the women’s point of view were able to ask manufacturers during the recent Dominion conferences in Wellington of the Women’s Institutes and the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers. Believing that many more women would like to hear these questions debated, the NZBS has now arranged a pane!-two spokesmen for the manufacturers and two women-which will be heard on link from YA stations and 3YZ in the 11.0 a.m. Women’s Session on Wednesday.
October 13. it will also be heard later from 4YZ. Representing women on the panel will be Mrs, M. J. Forde and Mrs. Beatrice Ashton. Besides being Immediate Past President of the National Council of Women, Mrs. Forde is the Council’s representative with the Standards Institute. Mrs. Ashton is a wellknown broadcaster particu-
larly in Women’s Sessions and speaks from several years’ experience of life in the United States. The manufacturers’ point of view will be put by G. S. Amos and R. Makinson, who between them have a wide knowledge of clothing manufacture of many kinds, The questions to be discussed by this panel will not concern women’s ‘and children’s clothing only. The women will contend, for example, that a poor quality cotten is used in the stitching of men’s working trousers, shorts, pyjamas and other garments, and that many garments have insufficient turnings in the seams. They will ask whether manufacturers of
men’s and _ boys’ © shirts could supply an extra collar with every shirt or have them available if required, and they will suggest that washing directions and cleaning properties should be -indicated on a label attached to each garment. There will be a series. of questions also about elastic -its quality and the way it is used in men’s, women’s and children’s garments,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 17
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