On the first night of her family's nine-week stay in a painstakingly restored, World War II-era house on the outskirts of London, Lyn Hymers-the flftysomething matriarch and breakout "star" of the British time-travel reality show The 1940s House (1999)-finds herself in a dilemma. After spending an hour putting curlers in her hair, she wonders aloud to the camera how wartime women managed to maintain such an air of grace and charm in a period of national crisis and ever-diminishing rations. Although comically self-effacing, Hymers's throwaway question-"How could it take this long to look this ugly?"-is not merely a rhetorical response to the strict beauty regime imposed on women of that ...

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