Complaint By C.W.I.
1 Age was used as the main indicator of sizes for children’s garments, said the Manufacturers’ Federation, in answer to complaints of difficulty in purchasing clothes for plumper children in the eight-to-12 age group, made by members of the Canterbury East Federation of Country Women’s Institutes. A letter from the manufacturers. read to the annual meeting of the C.W.I. federation by the secretary (Mrs L. D. Robb), said that the usual procedure for fitting outsize children would be to buy garments one or two sizes larger than their age reference indicated. : The Manufacturers’ Federation was unable to understand I why difficulties could not be [overcome if mothers fol'lowed the procedure. “When this suggestion was put to them, members stated that the girls’ dresses were too long in the waist and too old in style, and the boys’ pants were too long “tn the crotch and too long in the leg,” said Mrs Robb in a further letter to the manufacturers. This letter had now been answered, she told the meeting.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31659, 20 April 1968, Page 3
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