Originally Posted by
Ogre
PT undergarments for the WRAF, . . .
had to be exchanged for a new pair rather than just discarded. The conversation then worked around the subject of disposal of the returned items, with the suggestion that there were boxes of used pairs probably in a hangar at Stafford awaiting someone to suggest what to do with them!
Actually not too far wrong.
Remember they were all put in large, clear, polybags? One of the local rag and bone junk shops in deepest Lincolnshire used to buy the bags and offer the garments for sale
from the bags. Even used to have lots of firemen's blues surplus from when they went to green.
G*d it makes me itchy to imagine ........
