CHILDREN TOO BIG FOR THEIR BOOTS
LONDON, Nov. 21. Nine hundred out of 1000 schoolchildren tested by footwear researchers were squeezing their feet into undersized shoes and boots. The researchers found this when they took an X-ray machine on a nineday visit in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Research leader K. Freeborn said one 14-years-old boy was wearing new boots two sizes too small, which his mother had bought while he was at school. Many other parents apparently did not ha've enough money to keep pace with fast-growing feet. Correct sizes were worn most by boys of 14 and older, 15ut teen-age girls crammed their feet into the smallest shoes they could wear.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22821, 16 December 1948, Page 2
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