Name: _____________________
Class: _____________________
Work Sheet
Everyday Life – Did everyone help to fight the
war on the Home Front?
Tasks
1. Choose one or more of the problems experienced by people because of
clothes rationing (see source 1a) and design a poster showing possible
solutions.
2. Write a letter to a friend in America explaining how you feel about
clothes rationing. You could include details on what shortages you are
experiencing; how fashion has changed/is changing as a result of
rationing; have you been able to ‘make do and mend’; have you been
tempted to shop on the black market; are people cheating by buying
coupons from spivs? How do you feel about this?
3. Use your library to find pictures of clothes/fashion just before the
war, during the war and after the war. What differences are there?
How was fashion influenced by the war? How did people react after
clothes rationing ended?