Lady Tryon

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Dress designer Dale Harper suffered from spina bifida and paralysis during her childhood, and was left with severe health problems for the rest of her life. She was born in Australia, but came to London, England, in 1969, working for the London office of Australian Women's Weekly. When her children were young, she became UK agent for American designer Diane Fries, and went on to become a designer with her own label. She launched the Dale Tyron couture label in 1990.

Fashion designers, Harper, Dale Elizabeth

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The backwater bag lady

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A elderly South African woman named Lucy has developed a technique for making large, colourful bags out of small plastic carrier bags. She cuts the carrier bags into 1 cm-strips, and then weaves the strip on to a backcloth made of plastic hessian sacking. The recycling of plastic carrier bags in this way is just one example of how waste materials are used extremely creatively in South Africa, where many blacks have very limited resources.

Unsupported Plastics Bag Manufacturing, Bags: plastics, laminated, & coated, Plastic Shopping Bags, Waste management, Shopping bags, Plastic bags

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Lady Holland-Martin

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Voluntary worker Rosamund Hornby was born in London, England, in 1914. She joined the Women's Voluntary Services in 1942 and later led the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Women, Social service volunteers, Women volunteers in social service, Hornby, Rosamund Mary

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