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"Gay-with-color and smartly stylized rainy day ensemble"
Posted: February 25th, 2013, 1:46 pm
by plasphil
A nice article in a small town US newspaper in 1940. Also a period advert for the Koroseal raincoat.
Phil.
MAS05101940P03 10-05-1940.jpg
koroseal advert.jpg
Re: "Gay-with-color and smartly stylized rainy day ensemble"
Posted: February 25th, 2013, 4:29 pm
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