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Appendix 2

42. 43.

Data on habits relating to Foundation Garments

A. All women interviewed were asked:

“Do you mend your own corsets or belt”?

	Yes		No		Total
Housewife	854	85.7	142	14.3	996
Light Engineering	815	86.2	131	13.8	946
Textiles	877	87.8	122	12.2	999
Clerical	993	89.8	113	10.2	1,106
Shop Assistants	382	85.8	63	14.2	445
Other Factories	302	78.9	81	21.1	383
Transport	91	77.1	27	22.9	118
Agriculture	64	76.2	20	23.8	84
TOTAL	4,378	86.2	699	13.8	5,077

Replies to this question were analysed by type of Garment worn at time of interview.

		Yes		No		Total
Suspender Belt	Boned	195	84.4	36	15.6	231
Suspender Belt	Unboned	459	85.3	79	14.7	538
Pull-on Elastic Belt	Boned	177	89.4	21	10.6	198
Pull-on Elastic Belt	Unboned	596	85.5	101	14.5	697
Rubber corset	Boned	32		5		37 x
Rubber corset	Unboned	13		14		27 x
Other type of Corset	Boned	2,295	86.9	347	13.1	2,642
Other type of Corset	Unboned	84	79.2	22	20.8	106
Corselette	Boned	330	91.9	29	8.1	359
Corselette	Unboned	87	8.8	11	11.2	98 x
Expectant Mother’s corset		10		-		10 x
Surgical Corset		26	81.3	6	18.7	32 x
Worn at interview No Corset or Belt		89	72.4	34	27.6	123
TOTAL		4,393	86.1	705	13.9	5,098

x The Samples on this garment wore quite small. Percentages would, therefore be misleading.

Age	Yes		No		Total
40 & Over	1,095	87.7	154	12.3	1,249
30 -39	1,274	86.0	207	14.0	1,481
20 - 29	1,547	86.5	238	13.6	1,785
Under 20	466	82.2	101	17.8	567
TOTAL	4,382		700		5,082

Regional Figures on this subject are included in the section on Regional Differences.

B. All women interviewed were asked:

“Do you wash your own corsets or belt”?

Included in all the ‘Yes’ replies to this question were those Subjects who said that garments were washed at laundry. The ‘No’ replies are therefore for the main part made up of those subjects who do not have the garments washed.

	Yes		No		Total
Housewife	879	88.3	117	1.7	996
Light Engineering	845	89.2	102	10.8	947
Textiles	866	87.3	126	12.7	992
Clerical	1,034	93.2	75	6.8	1,109
Shop Assistants	415	93.0	31	7.0	446
Other Factories	332	86.7	51	13.3	383
Transport	102	86.4	16	13.6	118
Agriculture	74	83.1	10	11.9	84
Total	4,547	89.4	528	10.6	5,075

Appendix 2 (Cont.)

Replies to this question were also analysed by type of garment worn at the time of interview.

		Yes		No		Total
Suspender Belt	Boned	209	90.5	22	9.5	231
Suspender Belt	Unboned	495	92.5	40	7.5	535
Pull-on Elastic Belt	Boned	182	91.5	17	8.5	199
Pull-on Elastic Belt	Unboned	648	93.0	49	7.0	697
Rubber corset	Boned	32	86.5	5	13.5	37
Rubber corset	Unboned	22	81.5	5	18.5	27
Other type of Corset	Boned	2,300	87.2	332	12.8	2.632
Other type of Corset	Unboned	100	94.3	6	5.7	106
Corselette	Boned	338	94.7	19	5.3	357
Corselette	Unboned	95	96.0	4	4.0	99
Expectant Mother’s Corset		9	90.0	1	10.0	10
Surgical Corset		29	90.6	3	9.3	32
No Corset or Belt		103	83.0	21	17.0	124
TOTAL		4,562	89.6	524	10.4	5,086

Age	Yes		No		Total
40 & Over	1,108	88.6	142	11.4	1,250
30 -39	1,330	90.0	148	10.0	1,478
20 - 29	1,631	91.4	153	8.6	1,784
Under 20	484	85.2	84	14.8	568
TOTAL	4,553		527		5,080

Regional Figures in this subject are included in the section on Regional Differences.

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