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...fourth anniversary of the Anschluss. But if he took a bath in the Imperial Hotel, where he stayed in the spring of 1938, Hitler would have to dry himself with paper towels. Hotel owners can now be hanged as "traitors to the fatherland" unless they surrender all cloth towels. They are needed for bandages on the Russian front...
...Charles Vyner Brooke, Britain's wealthy White Raja of Jap-invaded Sarawak, turned up in Sydney with all the chattels he had managed to save: a toothbrush and shaving kit in a cloth...
...suit? All right-but only one pair of trousers, shorter coat, no trouser cuffs, tails, vents, belts, pleats, tucks, bellows, gussets, yokes or patch pockets. Suits will use some 26% less cloth. Civilians will get only 10-20% as much new wool as they got last year...
...Clothes for your wife? All right-but with the same kind of skimping as in men's clothes; no patch pockets, no matching wool cloth hats, bags, three-piece suits; styles will have to conform to a basic "silhouette"; no more rubber for girdles, brassieres or false bosoms...
...Director of Civilian Clothing Sir Thomas Barlow ordered 1,200 firms to manufacture "utility cloth" of wool and fiber. All men's suits will henceforth be single-breasted, have no trouser cuffs, no sleeve buttons. (For similar news of men's fashions in the U.S. see p. 13.) Women will wear shorter skirts -17 inches from the ground -less embroidery, no pleats...