| EVENING AND DAY FROCK New Dress From Old | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7064 |
| Catalog #: | 494841 | |
| Clip Number: | 494841-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NSP 371 | |
| Timecode: | 01:32:09 - 01:33:44 | |
| Location: | London | |
| Year Shot: | 1943 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DOMESTIC LIFE: Sewing & Mending FASHION: Day Dress FASHION: Women's LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London WORLD WAR TWO, HOMEFRONT: Rationing & Shortages | |
| Description: | EVENING AND DAY FROCK Making a New Dress From an Old One. Woman redesigning a new dress from an old style due to war rationing. Women how to recycle evening gowns into practical daytime dresses. (sewing, recycle, war shortages, make do and mend) London. Anne Edwards fashion expert of The Woman shows how to alter an old evening dress into a date frock....completed a girl demonstrates it when meeting her beau. Various shots of young woman converting pre-war long evening dress into a more practical day dress. We see her cutting out patterns and stitching. M/S of woman modelling the recycled dress with a matching turban to serviceman husband. | |
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