In the moorland town of Macclesfield, Housewife Hannah Wright was out of control. Many an officially contrived British wartime makeshift had annoyed her. But wartime corsets made her writhing mad. Last week she sent a letter to Daily Express Columnist William Barkley. Wrote angry Mrs. Wright:
"I wish you would take up seriously and strongly the matter of the utility [Government-designed] corset. There should be no false modesty about this very essential article. . . .
"After the birth of my second child the sight of my figure enclosed in a utility corset nearly paralyzed me. True, it caused a certain amusement to...
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