Fashion in 1942
The War Production Board (WPB) was established in 1942 as a government agency to regulate the production of materials and fuel during WWII in the United States. In a sweeping order affecting all women’s and girls’ outer wearing apparel, the WPB decreed to what lengths and widths dresses, skirts, coats, suits, sleeves, belts and hems might go. Categories exempt from the restrictions were infants apparel (age 1 to 4 yrs), bridal Gowns, maternity Dresses, vestments for religious orders and burial gowns.
We’ve grown soft.
So the city or the park administration finally took the feeding of the raccoons at the belvedere on Mont Royal seriously and put up some permanent signs.
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Behind St-Cats and St-Elizabeth. Some sweet graffiti back there. These guys were rapping over a boombox of their own tracks while two others filmed them with what looked like a smartphone and a…
We’ve had a beautiful Autumn here this year and I have taken advantage of it. The weekend before last, when the leaves changing was at its apex and the weather was unseasonably warm, I did the…
It’s probably going to be crowded, but if you have the opportunity to go up Mont-Royal today, I strongly recommend that you do so. I had a nice long evening walk yesterday and it was absolutely…
