Blast from the past—look what we dug up on Suite101.com. To anyone out there who thought
working in a recession was tough, English fashion makers in the 1940’s had it worse. Imagine trying to source textiles while dodging buzz bombs and a national rationing system that made chocolate and toilet paper rare commodities. “Despite the many physical restrictions during the years of WWII, the creative and aesthetic standards of Britain’s textile industry were raised considerably” said Scott Oram writer of Textile Design, Fashion and Creativity in Wartime Britain. Not only did the English fashion industry survive the Battle The Britain—it developed and flourished during it thanks to a series of
expositions.

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