Jean and Tony recall wedding dresses made from airmen's parachute silk; Jean remembers sitting for hours with other women sewing on beads from chandeliers and offers a fascinating insight into the impact of food rationing postwar:http://www.archive.org/details/ParachuteWeddingDressesAndRationingWwiiAustralia
To see a parachute wedding dress in the Smithsonian's collection, click here:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/costume/object.cfm?recordnumber=834994
Image: Jean and Tony.
To view ration coupons, click on: http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-food/rationing.htm
Visit the National Museum of Australia 'Feeding the Nation' exhibition on-line:
http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/now_showing/nation/feeding_the_nation/
