clothes rationing

She seemed to remember that clothes rationing had been removed in England.

Clothes rationing had suddenly been introduced, much to Anne's dismay.

Because of clothes rationing, fashion was abandoned but vanity not totally so.

Clothes rationing lasted from 1941 until 1949.

Clothes rationing ended on 15 March 1949.

The cap became a casualty of the clothes rationing and wartime austerity of the 1940s, since when pupils have gone bareheaded.

Bread was rationed in nineteen forty six and food and clothes rationing continued like make do and mend until well into the nineteen fifties.

Bread rationing continued until July 1948, and clothes rationing until 1949 (when the University of Keele was founded and Orwell's 1984 published).

During World War II it provided a range of fashion tips to cope with clothes rationing as well as recipes to deal with the shortages and alternatives.

He set about modernising the company and building on its wartime success, switching focus to casual wear and denim production, and taking advantage of the introduction of clothes rationing to increase competitiveness.

Gloria had bought her wedding dress almost as soon as Mother gave her blessing, so she was all right, but wouldn't you know it, clothes rationing came into force the Sunday before the wedding.

The residents were confident that wartime experience would convert many more of their clothed countrymen to shed their garments too - presumably for no other reason than that it eased the problems caused by clothes rationing.

She was excited because this was the first time that de Levantiére had followed the New Look that was capturing the world but was still hard to come by in England because of clothes rationing.

May 1949: Clothes rationing ended, according to one author because attempts to enforce it were defeated by continual massive illegality (black market, unofficial trade in loose clothing coupons (many forged), bulk thefts of unissued clothes ration books).

After four and a half years of war involving food and clothes rationing, and bombing, and losing friends, the sight of these large, prosperous, untouched-by-anything foreigners parading round the streets, chatting up anything in skirts, was profoundly irritating.