Word: trouserings
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...potential inductee whose middle-age spread will no doubt fill to overflowing the unyielding dimensions of a G.I. trouser, there comes encouragement indeed. Is it too much to hope that the services will eventually allow pleated trousers...
Last week the War Department gave harassed G.I.s better news than a 16-day furlough. The devilish leggings are on the way out. They will soon be replaced by leather combat boots ten inches high. The lower part of the boot is laced; the top part, into which the trouser leg tucks, is neatly buckled. Combat soldiers, long envious of the Germans' comfortable, homely field boot, thought it was about time...
...uniform of an R.A.F. air commodore, usually changed to dinner jacket at night. One evening he appeared as an honorary colonel of the Fourth Hussars, his old regiment. Stalin alternately wore two types of Marshal's uniforms, one in beige khaki, the other in slate-blue with white trouser-stripes...
...Down. He's Up: In Washington, OPA announced that it would be all right for laundries to stop sewing on pajama and underwear buttons, all right for cleaners not to bother with getting the lint and cigaret ashes out of trouser cuffs. But cigaret retailers who gave away matches a year ago last March must keep on giving them away, said...
...years old (too old to be one of those English drapes which some stylists conceive as a possible source of the zoot suit). The Duke compared the style of reporters' pants with his own, remarked: "I think it's a silly rule that does away with trouser cuffs...