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...short, U.S. women, by the million, have renounced skirts in favor of slacks. They are also renouncing less visible femininities: panties, brassières, slips, and even bloomers and petticoats. They have taken to chemises-not the kind that served as slipcovers under corsets-but a combination one-piece garment combining built-in bra, streamlined shorts, slip-like middles...
...Further, the report was eight months old -and since April 1941 union membership has increased notably. And one other big factor was not considered: some of the biggest and fattest of all unions did not report-A.F. of L.'s teamsters, carpenters, electrical workers and garment workers, C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers...
...clothes. At a dinner party recently a peer's daughter triumphantly announced that she had persuaded her dressmaker to sell her a new suit without the required coupons. A politician's wife proudly reported buying a fur coat (18 coupons) with no coupons whatever (she contended the garment was secondhand because it had been worn by a mannequin...
General Weygand's retirement would add one more chapter to a life story that in the last 20 years has consisted mostly of recalls from retirement during crises-the defense of Warsaw against the Bolsheviki in 1020, when women kissed the hem of his garment and men hailed him as a savior; Chief of the French General Staff when the full implication of a reduction of the length of compulsory military service had become clear; and finally to take chief command when the Germans had won the Battle of Flanders and were waging the Battle of France. "See Weygand...
...self-forgetful best, Agee has a delicacy and power that make the total effect of the book overwhelming. Even his most myopic descriptions are a poet's, as in his treatise on "overhauls," standard Southern farmworker's garment...