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Community Service

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From Blushes Supplement 18, another R.T.Mason-style story ‘We can go together,’ Diane had said. ‘Then it won’t be so bad. Safety in numbers.’ It sounded like a good idea. They looked through the lists in the papers. As usual there were lots of advertisers offering places for girls to do their Community Service and a number of them were prepared to take two girls. There was not a lot to go on in choosing, though, because they all gave only bare details and tended to say the same things. Good home for a girl doing her Community Service. Pleasant surroundings. Excellent discipline practised. They all said that because that was the point of Community Service. Discipline. A girl had to have a taste of it after school, at the still formative age of 18. The country did not want to produce delinquents and disorderly elements, as in the past, but responsible young citizens. Hence the prescribed periods of Community Service, a three-month p...

Colour Coded Girls

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A story bearing the hallmarks of R.T. Mason, from Blushes 30 Girls’ skirts were colour-coded: royal blue for 18-year-olds, a deep plum red for 19-year-olds and a bottle green for those aged 20. The skirts were very short and pleated, reaching just about to mid-thigh: top-of-stocking height. Stockings (white ones) were in fact worn on more formal occasions together with white high heels; otherwise it would be white knee-socks and sneakers. A white blouse went with all three colours of skirt. On top of this could be worn, if the weather warranted it, a grey cardigan or, in winter, a straight grey top-coat. The latter of course meant that it was necessary to open a girl’s coat to check her age group. There had been some talk of introducing a colour-coded top-coat or perhaps a badge or belt of an identifying colour, but as yet no firm decision on this had been made. But anyway, those with an interest, i.e. male citizens over the age...

Guardian for Julie

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