Learning on ScreenWindow-Dressing
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Shop-window models with moving eyes are made in a workshop in Molesey, Surrey.
- Researcher Comments
- Commentary: If a WRAC girl or Air India hostess wants a new dress, what does she do? Well, for a start, she plays that favourite woman’s game - window-shopping. But if she gets a funny feeling that someone is watching, then she should take a look at the display dummy. An expert has come across with the idea that a small device fitted to the eyes means that they constantly move right, left, right. They’re the envy of many a girl who would like to sit in a window, wearing model clothes, and watching the world go by to the left, right, left ...
- Keywords
- Arts and crafts; Industry and manufacture; Fashion and costume
- Locations
- Molesey; England; Surrey
- Written sources
- British Pathe online database
Pathe Pictorial Issue Sheets Used for commentary
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Brian Cobby
- Length of story (in feet)
- 178
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