SILK STOCKINGS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 187, 9 August 1941, Page 6

SILK STOCKINGS

For the past six weeks I have beea rushing up and down Queen Street trying to get a pair of stockings. I am at my office from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.. with half an hour off lar luncheon. Other women are Mfe j with all their time on their hanfe, to wait two hours for service. TOT get the stockings and I go without. At the previous election I voted "Labour" "quoth the raven." Never more. I don't want silk—anything i to cover my legs suits me. STOCKINGLESS MAISIE. I think it is disgusting the W the women of Auckland are MM*" ing about the stocking problem IM if they were in England or otneMjar zones they would have SOTetfißS more than their lfcgs to thinkaWHOf course, there are types. Firiuy. the greedy, grabbing ones wno w. and do if we assistants dont them, get two and three pays «Pa brag about it to all their fnentk Then the "good customers for yew®, who doubt the assistant's word W run to the manager or demand w see the harassed, worried buyer w floorwalker, and stand at the counter throwing nastv remarks about ub staff, etc.. thinking that the Stan should not wear stockings at aIL i» I boil? The workers need them more than the women who can wr dulge in afternoon teas and shoppijjo expeditions, and. believe me. it isin well-dressed women whom we jeno by sight who are the worst snap and the rudest, who we know g one pair every time stockings are i The third are the really honest whom we know are realty genu® and will take anything regardless re colour or brand, and tlo not turn their noses up and are courteous us assistants. Do the sna §L think wc relish hosiery days uk way they are now? A stocfcinj scare certainly does snow up the •'naicc" women in their colours, but there are still a i undcrtanding ones who I. for ow, would like to help all I could. OXE OK SEVERAL DISGUSTED ASSISTANTS.