WOMEN PROTEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 309, 30 December 1940, Page 9

WOMEN PROTEST.

CORSET RATIONING. Following the recent decision of the British Board of Trade to halve the supply of corsets to retailers, a meeting of protest was held at a West Knd hotel, London, at which it was decided that English women very definitely do not regard corsete as a luxury. "Obviously no woman doctor was consulted before the order was issued," said a prominent woman doctor. A manufacturer said: "By issuing corsets to women in the services, the Government admite they are essential. Ninety-five per cent of women depend on them." The meeting placed on record its opinion that the halving of the supply of corsets would cause muddle and unhappiness, although agreeing that women would co-operate with the manufacturers to meet the Government's wishes if it were necessary to restrict production during the war. A Macquarie Street doctor, referred to by the "Sydney Sunday Telegraph" regarding this matter, eaid that women needed a light foundation garment to support the abdominal muscles. "They do less strenuous exercise than men, and their muscles are usually flabby," he said. "The modern corset is not like the abominations of the last century, which constricted the growth of a .•woman's body."