Factory fashion notes...

Place Europe: United Kingdom
Accession Number ARTV01038
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 76.4 x 51 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description offset photolithograph on paper
Maker Golden, Grace Lydia
Ministry of Labour and National Service
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
Loxley Brothers Ltd
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Unlicensed copyright

Description

A British Second World War work safety poster commissioned by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents for the Ministry for Labour and National Service. It features an illustration by Grace Golden(1904-1993) of two figures posing in the style of a fashion plate, set against a factory as a background, one demonstrating how not to dress on the factory floor (numbered 213) , the other correctly dressed in dungarees and headscarf (numbered 214).