SIREN SUITS
VERY POPULAR IN LONDON AUSTRALIAN GIRLS’ PROPOSAL London housewives, rationed into wearing the “siren suit” for air raid shelter wear, are liking it so much they are adopting it for all-day purposes, states a Sydney message. The idea may come to Australia, as employees in a Ibig Sydney department store are considering asking permission to come to work in slacks and overcome clothes rationsimultaneously. ing and the silk stocking shortage The siren suit is a one-piece slacks-and-shirt outfit, zippered up the front for speed in getting dressed, with capacious pockets designed to hold everything from baby’s bottle to the first aid kit. The majority of siren suits are waterproofed.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3151, 3 August 1942, Page 2
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111SIREN SUITS Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3151, 3 August 1942, Page 2
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