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1930 FASHION: Wigan mill girls model cotton dresses on board Cunard liner 'Scythia'
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1:33Now PlayingDate: 1st January 1930
Location: EUROPE
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: 'All aboard' for cotton boom! On Deck of Cunarder, 'Scythia', Wigan mill girls demonstrate possibilities of Lancashire product
ENGLAND: Location unknown:
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Girls along decks in cotton summer dresses and hats, some carrying parasols and some wearing Victorian (Edwardian?) dresses, as two girls engage in mock boxing match as sailors look on / Sailors along row of women as humorously inspecting them / Sailor lights cigarette of woman sitting on deck as women along deck / Sailors light cigarettes for mill girls as sailors and girls arm in arm along deck
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