Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opulent Age. When World War I ended, every U.S. war worker who could afford to, invested his wages in a silk shirt with peppermint candy stripes. The shirt was a gonfalon of the future. Prosperity was just around the corner...
From Seoul, LIFE Photographer George Silk cabled: "I am writing this during a party in Korea's leading geisha house. The party is the third in a succession of 51 such parties. In the last few weeks 51 Korean political organizations have mushroomed and each tried to reach American military authorities. Failing, they are entertaining the U.S. press. Some of the new parties' names: Republican, Democratic, Communist, New Korea, Party for the Control of Law and Order, and Party for Cooperation with the Party for the Control of Law and Order...
...carries the load of running G.M. with remarkable ease. He still dresses with a touch of the dandy. In his tie, he usually wears a pearl stick pin. A silk handkerchief always cascades from his breast pocket. Usually he gets to his office about 9:30 a.m., goes through his business day in a lope. In winter, he drives from his 14-room apartment on Fifth Avenue; in summer he takes the train into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station from his 25 acres near Great Neck, L.I., rides the subway to his office...
...through every thick-carpeted hotel corridor. The steaks were thick and plentiful. Real Scotch (not Australian) whiskey flowed. Hotel beds had spring mattresses and clean white sheets. By changing U.S. dollars to Chungking dollars to Nanking dollars to Japanese yen, the fabulously inflated prices unreasonably became reasonable (steaks 50?, silk nightgowns $3). For 15 incredible days the celebration throbbed-firecrackers and kisses, music and laughter. British and U.S. soldiers were surrounded by "saltwater plums" (sailors' girls) from Szechwan Road, and by delicate Eurasian women, warm Russians, big-eyed Hungarians...
...jail, where most of the accused were held, there was a decided religious trend. More & more of the Nazis asked for Bibles and the services of the U.S. Army chaplains. One of the most devout was Hans Frank, who had walked into captivity clad only in a pair of silk panties...