FASHION: Wigan mill girls model cotton dresses on board Cunard liner ’Scythia’ (1930)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Wigan mill girls model cotton dresses on board the Cunard liner ’Scythia’ Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: ’All aboard’ for cotton boom! On Deck of Cunarder, ’Scythia’, Wigan mill girls demonstrate possibilities of Lancashire product ENGLAND: Location unknown: EXT Girls along decks in cotton summer dresses and hats, some carrying parasols and some wearing Victorian (Edwardian?) dresses, as two girls engage in mock boxing match as sailors look on / Sailors along row of women as humorously inspecting them / Sailor lights cigarette of woman sitting on deck as women along deck / Sailors light cigarettes for mill girls as sailors and girls arm in arm along deck Background: Wigan mill girls model cotton dresses on board the Cunard liner ’Scythia’ FILM ID: VLVA1SWWI3KDQ9B9HWNK7UEPXKLHT To license this film, visit