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Article: The 50s: a decade when women wore pink meringues ...
The Independent - London;  January 20, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... these glamorous Fifties styles remind Winslet of the clothes worn by another actress in Heavenly Creatures, Diana Kent, who played ... and roll. I was a teenager in the Fifties, so I know what was worn and am able to help them with what should go with what ...

Article: The 50s: a decade when women wore pink meringues
The Independent - London;  January 20, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... these glamorous Fifties styles remind Winslet of the clothes worn by another actress in Heavenly Creatures, Diana Kent, who played ... and roll. I was a teenager in the Fifties, so I know what was worn and am able to help them with what should go with what ...

Article: Waxing pain is charity's gain ; Steely men had their legs waxed ...
Plymouth Evening Herald, The;  November 4, 2008 ;     511 words ...Steely men had their legs waxed and women wore pink to raise cash for Cancer Research UK. Plymouth Care ... Crombie, care manager at Plymouth Care Services, said: "The women wore something pink and a few brave men had their legs waxed ...

Transcript: Commentary: Longing for the days when men wore mostly suits ...
NPR Special;  March 4, 2005 ;     634 words ...ED GORDON NPR Special 03-04-2005 Commentary: Longing for the days when men wore mostly suits and women wore pretty dresses Host: ED GORDON Time: 9:00-10:00 AM ED GORDON, host: Columnist Sam Fulwood loves clothes, and remembers ...

Article: WOMEN WORE PRETTIEST DRESSES FOR DANCE THAT NEVER ...
Evansville Courier & Press;  April 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ...This is the last of four columns about Evansville's home front during World War II. The focus is on the Red Cross Canteen and USO Club. Dora Rawlings was a busy woman in the early 1940s. She taught at Wheeler Elementary School in Evansville. She registered people for gas rationing coupons. She

Article: What women wore in convents.(The Habit; A History ...
National Catholic Reporter;  July 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ...THE HABIT: A HISTORY OF THE CLOTHING OF CATHOLIC NUNS By Elizabeth Kuhns Doubleday, 228 pages, $23.95 Elizabeth Kuhns was raised a Protestant in Catholic Baltimore where "nuns were always present in my peripheral vision." Years later, a Catholic convert, she began "to understand the devotion and

Article: The wheel thing In the movie version, the women ...
The Independent - London;  June 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...he great westward migrations of white settlers in the 1840s and 1850s have provided some of American history's most evocative imagery. Anyone who has ever seen a Western will consider themselves familiar with the iconography of the wagon trains. What few people realise, however, is the quite