War Bride- Everyday Life in Wartime London, March 1943 Newly-engaged Marcelle Lestrange looks at a wedding cake in a shop in London. The assistant explains that the icing effect is made of painted cardboard and rice paper and lifts off to reveal the real cake below. According to the original caption: 'The cake underneath the trimmings is less full of currants than a pre-war cake and must not cost more than 35 cents a pound'.

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