STOCKINGS AND FOOTWEAR
(0.C.) LONDON, May 15. Unless the women of Britain go without stockings this summer, there will be a shortage next winter, it is stated. "We want to encourage younger women to wear ankle socks now, so that no one has to go without stockings in winter," said an official of the Board of Trade. "We hope that parents who are prejudiced against their daughters going barelegged to work will not discourage them from doing so. There is a definite shortage." He said a suggestion that stockings should be sold singly so that odd ones could be matched was to be considered.
Socks are advocated because the new utility footwear is not so finely made that it can be worn barefooted. Half the footwear to be manufactured in the near future will be utility; later it will be more.
Footwear is manufactured to 100 official specifications, which provides for men's, women's, children's, and occupational footwear. Cardboard insoles and cloth-tops are banned in utility shoes; so are wedge and high heels.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 29, 3 August 1942, Page 4
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