ARSENAL FASHIONS.
In "Munition Lasses/ Dr. Foxwell relates how Woolwich 'Arsenal broke into a riot of colour. Girls in some departments were able to indulge their passion for flowers, but in the danger buildings nothing extraneous to the 'works must enter. The substitution of coloured ribbons for the Government shoe laces was the result. The fashion was introduced by the Cap Shop girls, vyho appeared one morning with bright emerald green ribbon in their shoes. The. following morning the whole factory was, in the fashion. Shies were tied; with blue, pink, red., and white ribbon; with anything but the Government boot lace of untanned leather. The fashion spread to the office; the women clerks paraded the platform during the dinner hour with resplendent shoe laces. The attendants also followed suit, and dear old Auntie Ellis, the senior attendant, was discovered wearing shoe-strings of bright scarlet.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9212, 5 February 1918, Page 2
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ARSENAL FASHIONS.
Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9212, 5 February 1918, Page 2
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