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You just can't make this stuff up *(:>* - haikuman - 09-02-2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14746750
2 September 2011 Last updated at 10:58 GMT Shar
Why state surveys asked about bras and haddock
By Tom de Castella
BBC News Magazine
From bra ownership to television interference, the government has wanted to know some strange stuff about people in the UK. Now a history of social surveys reveals why.
In 1941, Britain's fight with Nazi Germany lay in the balance. But no effort was spared to improve the war effort. In November of that year, researchers from the Board of Trade interviewed 5,000 women about their lingerie collections.
The survey was well intentioned - to work out the amount of steel that was being diverted from the war effort to prop up women's corsets and other garments. But it led to unintended humour and, for a modern readership, some surprising answers.
Re: You just can't make this stuff up *(:>* - DP - 09-02-2011
Fun stuff-I like that some women owned 0.8 bras and others owned 1.9.
Re: You just can't make this stuff up *(:>* - Speedy - 09-02-2011
"steel that was being diverted from the war effort to prop up women's corsets and other garments"
I thought they were trying to prop up a couple of body parts.
Re: You just can't make this stuff up *(:>* - Lew Zealand - 09-02-2011
Direct vs. indirect effects
Re: You just can't make this stuff up *(:>* - MikeF - 09-02-2011
Your tax dollars at work.
Re: You just can't make this stuff up *(:>* - Jimmypoo - 09-03-2011
well... if the damned brits hadn't taken so long to polymerize ethylene, the plastic vibrator would have come
along much sooner, and they wouldn't be wearing those things most of the time, war or no war!