1937 Fashion: Welsh Girls Trained as Mannequins

Date: 3rd February 1937

Location: United Kingdom

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

(Note: the tape date given for this shotlist is faulty, the approximate date for this footage is 1937)

SLATE INFORMATION: Hope Dawns for Girls of Derelict Areas

WALES:

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Various of factory chimneys / Young woman towards along street lined with terraced houses / Entrance to 'Employment Exchange for Women'

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Women at counter

ENGLAND: London:

Group of young women standing round woman posing on pedestal (at fashion school to be trained to be mannequins) (models)

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Young women mannequin trainees exercising in yard, boxing, fencing

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Young woman having her eyebrows plucked / Young woman having a facial massage / Woman have a manicure / Hairdresser arranging trainee model's hair / Trainee mannequin undergoing walking exercise wearing bathing suit and high heels / Mannequin posing on pedestal surrounded by other trainee models posing / Miss Clayton (Owner of fashion school) arranging model (narrator voice-over "Miss Clayton guarantees to find jobs for the girls starting at ����3 a week, very different from their bleak prospects in Wales") SOT

Vox pops Young women trainee mannequins

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