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CLOTHES RATIONING SUNDAY MARKET RUSH RULING IGNORED (Elec. Tel, Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. June 2, 2.40 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. The Board of Trade has ruled that no extra coupons will be available for outsize persons who must surrender more coupons than small persons. No concessions are being made for film or stage artists. No extra coupons are available for weddings, funerals or special occasions. Nurses, domestic servants and factory workers must surrender coupons for uniforms and overalls except in a few special circumstances. Black-out curtains are almost the only things for which fabric is obtainable without a coupon. A boy must produce his girl friend’s ration card if he wishes to buy her silk stockings or other gifts of clothing. The fashion trade says that fashions will be more temperate because women will not want to be conspicuous. If they are compelled to wear the same garment season after season dyers, cleaners, and renovators expect a boom.
Men and women shoppers crowded six and seven deep, around the stalls in the Walworth Market where, despite the official- ruling that the rationing of clothes applied in Sunday markets, all kinds of clothes were sold.
Women angrily pushed aside a reporter who asked about coupons. A stall-holder, said: “We ’never read the 'Sunday. - papeirs-here'.” l - ■
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20571, 3 June 1941, Page 9
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