Wrac

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

405

Date Released

1 Oct 1962

Date recorded

31 Aug 1962

Length of issue (in feet)

759

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Indian Air Hostesses
2. 2Wrac
3. 3Window-Dressing
4. 4Space-Age Hair Fashions

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

NoS Summary - WRAC officer cadets train at the Women’s Royal Army Corps school of Instruction in Liphook, Hampshire.

Researcher Comments

Commentary: New uniforms are very much uppermost in the minds of the WRAC officer cadets who train down in Hampshire. In smart green tunics, these girls are taught to carry out efficiently jobs which men alone were allowed to do in the last war. In today’s Army, a woman officer must not only be smart and alert, she must be expert in many technical fields, too. And there’s emphasis on the social side, with lectures on make-up, dancing, and entertaining. If the Army of today’s all right - a lot of the credit’s due to the girls in green.

Keywords

Fashion and costume; Military

Written sources

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Credits:

Commentator

Brian Cobby

Length of story (in feet)

189

Story extras:

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