Fine Feathers
England's well-groomed Board of Trade President Hugh Dalton, who had sworn not to buy a new suit for the duration, urged his fellow Britons to go collarless, tieless, sockless through the summer, said he himself would not hesitate to attend the House of Commons with a naked neck. "Men are a great problem" he decided. "They are too conservative."
About the time that she was being chosen 1943's best-dressed cinemactress, Carole Landis was touring Tunisia, with her noteworthy figure encased in old-fashioned woolies. "I itched all the time,", she recalled, "and when nobody was looking I scratched."
King George VI ordered Buckingham...
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