Orbost & District Historical Society
newspaper clipping, 16.8.1975
... newspaper-article-fashion Burton-Marjorie... clothing fashions of 1975. newspaper-article-fashion Burton ...
The Daily Telegraph is a broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
This newspaper clipping was used by Marjorie Burton for fashion ideas.
Marjorie Burton ( nee Whiteman), born 12 June, in Birmingham, England came to Orbost in 1995.
In England she did office work – typing, shorthand and secretarial work - in accountants’ offices and also trained as a comptometrist with Burroughs in London. She came from a middle-class working church-going family. Her mother was a milliner who made many of Marjorie’s clothes, hats and outfits.
Marjorie was married in 1938 to a salesman who later became a mechanic in the R.A.F. during WW11. Newspapers reflect the current social and fashion trends. This item is an example which reflects the women's clothing fashions of 1975.A page from the Daily Telegraph, Saturday August 16, 1975. it contains articles and advertisements for women's fashion.Bottom left hand corner of page 8 - illegible handwriting in blue pen.newspaper-article-fashion burton-marjorie