Utility clothing
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utility-clothing-161-14371743
title:
Utility clothing
text:
The Utility Clothing Scheme was a programme introduced in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. In response to the shortage of clothing materials and labour due to wartime austerity, the Government's Board of Trade put the Utility Clothing Scheme in place in order to standardise the production, sale, and purchase of clothing in wartime. The Scheme embodied a variety of measures to ensure the availability of fabric, clothing, and shoes, which were proposed to ensure availability, no mat
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
World War II clothing rationing in the UK
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_clothing
date created:
2012-01-01T00:42:53Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T10:20:39Z
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