253 Clothes and Coupons MORE QUESTIONS ANSWERED Cut this out and keep it with the other official announcements on clothes and footwear rationing. No time limit on clothing coupons. There is no hurry to buy clothes if you do not need to, for you do not have to spend all the margarine coupons in your current Food Book by any particular date. It is much better to keep some of them for the autumn. You must plan your needs looking ahead a bit. The 26 coupons with which you started ought to last you to the middle of October.