It looks as if coupons for clothes in Great Britain will not only afford an opportunity for women to show their ingenuity, but also for men to show their unselfishness—the married ones at least.
For, says Reuter, "Some husbands look like losing their coupons."
This, no doubt, will depend on whether they are out for appeasement or are ready to defend their rights to, say, their full allowance of neckwear.
Virtue, as usual, will go unrewarded, and the woman who has piously allowell herself only a few frocks will have nothing to fall back on, while the owner of the well-stocked wardrobe will triumph.
Shops dealing in household linen, furnishing materials and other similar household requisites have had a busy week. These things do not appear on the clothes ration list of Britain's fashion dictator, Captain Lyttelton, and consequently the wily among Britain's women were not slow to see the possibilities here. They rushed off to stores and bought blankets—to be turned into perfectly adequate and comfortable sports coats. They bought all they could get of white and coloured linen and cotton sheets—to be made up into charming summer tub-frocks, thus saving their precious 66 coupons for less seasonable stuff. Fine muslin curtains were snapped up in no time to be transformed into dresses or lingeries for mothers and children. cee than a woman's. In any case, most wives will doubtless confider that their men's leaning towards a larger range in neckwear can be mercilessly suppressed to release coupons for more stockings for their wives.
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