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The material used for these dresses may appear too heavy and more suitable as a furnishing fabric. It often was furnishing fabric. Postwar Britain needed to concentrate textile production for export. The home market ![]() For the six war years followed by the eight austerity years the women of Britain had to endure clothes rationing and design control. | Most of these dresses would have been run-up at home from a paper pattern. |
Above photo inscribed on reverse: August 1948 |
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