What was food and clothing rationing like during WW2? :)?
In ‘America’s women’ Gail Collins writes: ‘Whether women worked or not, their lives were made infinitely more complicted by rationing, which restricted the availability of sugar, coffee, butter, certain types of meat, and canned goods a swell as things like gasoline, tires, and stockings. New appliances were not being manufactured, and children who were promised a bicycle on the eve of World War II were sometimes licensed to drive by the time it became available. Unable to find stockings, women began wearing leg makeup instead. And since the stockings of the 1940s had seams donw the back, women’s magazines ran guides on how to draw a realistic-looking line down the calf. American rationing was manily a matter of inconvenience. by eating less sugar and being forced to walk because of the gasoline shortage, the population was arguably in better shape than it would ever be in again. Civilians got stamps every month that gave them the right to buy different products. “My mother and all the
