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Show Cloth Restrictions Eased, Britons Better Dressed LONDON. For two years after the war started and rigorous rationing ration-ing of clothing, as of all other necessities, neces-sities, including food, was enforced, well-dressed Britons, patriotically making the best of it, deemed shabby shab-by habiliments, and even shoddy,' a badge of honor. Now cloth of the old quality which made the product of British mills world famous is once more being produced in quantity and made! available to dealers, supply, having more than caught up with requirements require-ments of the uniformed forces of the Allies. The result is that the public is, buying better quality clothes to such an extent that there is a glut of cheap clothing. This consequence of the demand for value for coupons threatens, it is said, to create a black market in the drapery trade. What traders fear, said a trade association official, is that unless more better quality clothes are produced and bottlenecks in cheap clothing are removed, unscrupulous un-scrupulous traders short of money will be tempted to sell frozen stocks "off the ration." |