MODERN MILL GIRL AND SILK STOCKINGS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6911, 17 May 1929, Page 11

MODERN MILL GIRL AND SILK STOCKINGS

RUINING CLOG TRADE. A predilection for silk stockings has stilled the clatter of clogs on the cobbled pavements of the Lancashire cotton manufacturing towns, and every yoar more girls, including those working in factories, are discarding the homely footwear of the North. The ancient craft of the dogger is slowly but surely dying out. Mill-girls dedare that silk stockings clash so violently with' clogs that they do not care to wear the latter, even when at work. Moreover, tho conditions under which they work have improved so greatly during rocent years that many of the girls consider dogs arc no longer necessary. ‘ ‘ The craze for silk stockings has hit our trade very hard,” said Mr Samuel Llewellyn, a veteran master craftsman of the Conway Valley, North Wales, whoso family for four generations has followed tho dogger’s calling. "Every yoar the demand for dogs grows less, and my family may soon have to look to other trades for a livelihood.”