"Gay-with-color and smartly stylized rainy day ensemble"

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plasphil
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"Gay-with-color and smartly stylized rainy day ensemble"

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A nice article in a small town US newspaper in 1940. Also a period advert for the Koroseal raincoat.

Phil.
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Domino
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Re: "Gay-with-color and smartly stylized rainy day ensemble"

Post by Domino »

Thanks for this interesting post, Phil.
I am highly dubious that the girl on the left of the photo in the newspaper article is wearing white oilskin. Oilskin is surely never semi-transparent, as this mac obviously is. It seems to me that it is plastic. I know that these days some types of pvc rainwear / marinewear are mis-identified as oilskin, but I am surprised it was happening as long ago as 1940.
I assume the credit at the end means that this article was syndicated to various local newspapers by the Western Newspaper Union.

Domino
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