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M&S Magazine Advert Christmas 1932

An M&S magazine advert from Christmas 1932, showing ready-to-wear women's clothes. Before this, women had been able to buy stockings, handkerchiefs and hats at M&S, but this was the first time they could buy whole outfits.

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