Word: sockless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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England's well-groomed Board of Trade President Hugh Dalton, who had sworn not to buy a new suit for the duration, urged his fellow Britons to go collarless, tieless, sockless through the summer, said he himself would not hesitate to attend the House of Commons with a naked neck. "Men are a great problem" he decided. "They are too conservative...