BRITISH TAILORING TRADE

Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 8

BRITISH TAILORING TRADE

SHORTAGE OF LININGS (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.) LONDON, October 18. Although British tailors’ waiting lists are still long, they are diminishing, and there are indications, that when the current shortage of lining cloths is overcome it may be possible for wearers of carefully husbanded pre-war suits to order replacements without having to wait for them for six or nine months. The present production of woven wool cloths for the British home market is now 50 per cent, greater, than last year, and it is considered by representatives of the clothing trade that the main demand for demobilisation suits is now satisfied. . The next task is the satisfaction of the tremendous pent-up civilian demand. The chief obstacle in the way of this is the shortage of labour in factories and the tailoring trade, and the shortage of lining material. It is reported that in some factories there are stocks of garment partially made up which cannot be completed until more generous supnlies of linings are forthcoming. There is also still a shortage of high-quality woven cloth, but the indications are that the increased production expected during the current half year will do a great deal to meet this demand.