Fashion on the Ration: how World War 2 finally let women wear the trousers - Telegraph

As the Fashion on the Ration exhibition opens at the Imperial War Museum, this extract from Julie Summers' book of the same name reveals how women's style changed forever in1940s Britain

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In September 1939, just three weeks after the outbreak of war, Gladys Mason wrote briefly in her diary about events in 'Hitler watched German siege of

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Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War - Kindle edition by Summers, Julie. Arts & Photography Kindle eBooks @ .

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Our War Too: Women's History Symposium The National WWII Museum's Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy is proud to present its next scholarly symposium in honor of