Word: neckwear
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...crusade will be conducted against inflamable collars, as well. Reason for the attack on the non-fire-proof neckwear will relate to the war: 'Poon editors feel that if a soldier, wearing an inflammable collar is shot in the neck, he may well suffer from severe burns...
...January piece-goods sales rose 40-50% over 1941 figures, patterns 20-25%. Up also were sales in findings, trimmings, buttons, dress forms. Sales of neckwear (collars & cuffs) were up more than...
Reasons for the upsurge in neckwear are twofold : 1) to retrim last year's dresses, and to trick up this year's limited wardrobe, 2) to allure and astonish men, who are anciently susceptible to a frill at the throat. To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs...
...undergraduate ate a special Mem Hall early breakfast and caught a private train to Springfield, where they alighted to wander around waving crimson flags and flunting crimson neckwear and Harvard buttons till game time, 2:15 o'clock...
...might not be inadvisable for holders of securities in shaving accessory companies to at least reduce their holdings until the result of this experiment is determined. I would also advise owners of securities in neckwear companies to watch this development with suspicion, for with the coming of full beards, neckties may become practically obsolete...