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Evening Star, Issue 25496, 29 May 1945, Page 8

THE D.SA is.THE. place ... for Children's Coats ... for All Ages up to Maids ... and for all occasions GIRLS' TWEED COATS The warmest and heaviest coat in the Children's Section. Made in plain fitting double-breasted style in really heavy coating tweed, in Grey and Fawn as follows: Grey—27in, £4/10/6; 30In, £4/15/6; 33in, £5/6/6. Fawn—• 27in, £5/10/6; 30in, £5/16/3; 33in. £6/1 GIRLS'TWEED COATS Pretty Diagonal Tweeds, fully lined, in tones of Blue, Red, and Fawn. 20in, 57/6; 24in, 62/3; 27in, 69/6. 30in, 73/6. ' mrnm m 1 MAIDS' MOTTLED TWEED COATS Winter weight, tailored style, halt-belt. Colours Mottled effects in Saxe, Blue, Terra. Size 4lin. £7/8/6 KIDDIES' HATS, TOO! Remember, there's a matching Hat for every coat.

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SURPRISING EVIDENCE FROM SCIENTIFIC TESTS (With acknowledgments to Torridon.) Wool can be stretched to an enormous degree without breaking. A single wool fibre was stretched wet to another 70% of its original length, and returned exactly to its former size. Wool clothes carefully folded recover their shape due to the marvellous?? elasticity of wool. Wool is extremely strong, and tests gave the following figures of tensile strength for metal wires of the same diameter as a wool fibre. Tensile strength per sq. inch WOOL - - 17 tons Gold Wire - - 17 tons Copper Wire - 18 tons Aluminium Wire 12 tons In other words, Wool Clothes wear for years and keep their shape. I 1 MUUCE