CRISIS IN CORSETS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 118, 14 February 1944, Page 6

CRISIS IN CORSETS

British Women’s Plaint

Women who really-need corsets, large women and unshapely women, have not boeu able to get them iu England, but the British Government recently announced that it had finally agreed to do something about it. Board of Trade officials who have to look after such matters, ou the basis of a complaint from a London newspaper, got out their official tape measure and compiled some statistics on the size and shape of the British woman. They discovered that 8 per cent, of those “interviewed” had wnists-uhder 26 inches, 57 per cent, from 26 to 32 inches, 30 per cent, from 32 to 39 inches, 5 per cent, over 39 inches. Women in 'he “upper brackets” complained that they could not get anything to fit them and that they needed the support of good corsets to stand, as they have to do every day, eiher in war factories or in queues. The Government, which is responsible for women’s war jobs and for a lot of the queues, agreed to provide a new supply.