Y6: 2-16. Rationing – Clothes – Best study methods

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World War Two

Today we are going to …..

to …recap descriptive techniques
to …begin to plan & create descriptive language choices for our next task
to …record relevant information for Chapter 2

It wasn’t just food that was rationed during WWII.

petrol
clothing
coal
soap
gas
electricity
sweets
chocolate

Let’s look at the rationing of clothes in more detail…

Clothing also became scarce. Clothes rationing began two years after food rationing started. The clothing Ration Books looked different from the Food Ration Books.

Clothes were rationed because:

there was a shortage of materials to make clothes
clothing factories (& workers!) had to be used to make items needed in the war (e.g. parachutes & uniforms)

What was the practical implication…?

How did Clothes Rationing work?

Everyone was given a Clothing Book with coloured coupons in it. At first each person was given 60 coupons to last them a year. (Children were given an extra 10 coupons to allow for growing out of clothes during a year.)

Every item of clothing was given a value in coupons. To buy clothes people handed over their Clothing Book to the shopkeeper, who cut out one of the coupons. Then they paid the shopkeeper for the clothes. The coupon system allowed people to buy one completely new set of clothes once a year.

“Make-Do-And-Mend”

The government also started a campaign known as “Make-Do-And-Mend” that urged people to repair and reimagine existing clothes. This meant that people were urged to fix or alter the clothes that they have.