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fashions SIR: Fifty years ago the Government released parachutes. In this photograph are my my son and daughter, who is wearing a dress made of parachute silk.
Percy C Rising was a long-time photographer on St George's Road.
My brother was a soldier in Hong Kong and gave the the necklace, which my daughter is wearing and Carmen Miranda high heel shoes in red suede. You couldn't buy high heels then!
R Crossfield,
Thaxted Place,
Chorley Old Road, Bolton.
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