Hi Listers, The following article, featuring a tearoom in the style of the 1930s in Castle Cary, conjures up a different way of life: Serving up a sweeter side of 1930s life http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Shop-look-town-s-past/story-16948191-detail/story.html The illustration of waitresses wearing white headbands threaded with black ribbon reminded me that, some years ago, I inherited some white, lacy, maids' headbands with ribbons of black velvet to thread through them. Although probably from the 1920s or 1930s they were brand new being part of the stock of an old-fashioned draper's shop. Josephine