Not uncommon for men to come in and just say the clipper number. Honestly though I have no idea how I learned 2 was the length on the side I wanted. Probably it was this exact scenario I just guessed right.
Whether those problems are better or worse on the whole from the ones prior to decolonisation I'm sure will be argued back and forth below by people who just read the Wikipedia article.
Nah they just used the poors to take care of it.
Which I guess is still sorta true today.