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The Famous One: The Burberry Trench Coat (The Stars and Stripes, 1918)

The trench coat, the submarine and the machine-gun were just a few of the innovations bequeathed to the modern world following the bloody brawl of 1914-1918. All three are still with us today, and one could even argue that, given the bitter peace that followed, these three were the only victors that emerged from that war. If that is the case, three cheers for Field Marshal Burberry and his legion of trench coats that have marched on every capitol city since that first autumn on the Marne!

The Famous One: The Burberry Trench Coat (The Stars and Stripes, 1918)

The trench coat, the submarine and the machine-gun were just a few of the innovations bequeathed to the modern world following the bloody brawl of 1914-1918. All three are still with us today, and one could even argue that, given the bitter peace that followed, these three were the only victors that emerged from that war. If that is the case, three cheers for Field Marshal Burberry and his legion of trench coats that have marched on every capitol city since that first autumn on the Marne!

The Clothing of Abraham Lincoln (Coronet Magazine, 1950)

The attached article is a segment from a longer one about the history of Brooks Brothers and it confirms that the Great Emancipator was one of their customers, as were the Union Army Generals Grant, Sherman and Hooker.


Click here if you would like to read the entire article about the first 132 years of Brooks Brothers.

The Foundation Garments that Were Needed for ”The New Look” (See Magazine, 1948)

Since The New Look sought to overhaul the fashion silhouette of the female form it was quickly understood that women would need different foundation garments to complete this look. Fashion’s cry has always been: When nature doth deny, let art supply – and the rocket scientists of the ladies underwear subculture did just that. The attached photo-essay from See Magazine shows three pictures of the new under-lovelies.


Click here to learn about the lingerie and pajamas that had to be hand-crafted on the W.W. II American home front…

The Foundation Garments that Were Needed for ”The New Look” (See Magazine, 1948)

Since The New Look sought to overhaul the fashion silhouette of the female form it was quickly understood that women would need different foundation garments to complete this look. Fashion’s cry has always been: When nature doth deny, let art supply – and the rocket scientists of the ladies underwear subculture did just that. The attached photo-essay from See Magazine shows three pictures of the new under-lovelies.


Click here to learn about the lingerie and pajamas that had to be hand-crafted on the W.W. II American home front…

What To Do About Diem? (United States News, 1963)

Here is an article by a respected American journalist who was dispatched to South Vietnam in order that he might see for himself what the problems were as to why the Republic of Vietnam seemed so incapable of maintaining military dominance in the field. Everywhere he went he got the same answer:

A highly respected professor at Saigon University [remarked]:
‘If you have to make a choice between supporting the Ngo family
and withdrawing from South Vietnam, you might as well pull out.

You cannot win with the family.’

Babe Ruth’s Record (Gentry Magazine, 1952)

Compiled four years after the Babe’s death, the attached list will provide you with a compilation of all the various, assorted mosts that Babe Ruth racked up during his baseball career:


Most home runs, lifetime…………………………….714

Most home runs, American League………………708

Most home runs, World Series…………………….15

Most home runs, season…………………………….60

Most years leading in home runs………………….12

etc…etc…

Our French Inheritance (United States News, 1954)

The U.S. is going to shoulder the job of saving what is left of Indo-China from the Communists…Congress is unlikely to approve additional funds. South Vietnam isn’t a good-enough risk to be worth much bigger American investment. Everything may go down the drain in 19 months.

African-Americans During the Great Depression (Pathfinder Magazine, 1939)

Written during the later years of the Great Depression, these columns summarize the sad lot of America’s Black population – their hardships, ambitions, leadership, and where they tended to live.

When the Depression struck, Negroes were the first to lose their jobs. Today, 1,500,000 colored adults are unemployed.


A 1938 article about the hardships of the Southern States during the Great Depression can be read here…


Click here to learn about the origins of the term Jim Crow.

British Civilians Trained to Use Gas Masks (The Literary Digest, 1936)

This article appeared in 1936 and reported that the populations of both England and France were being trained in the general use of gas masks in anticipation of a German invasion.

Even babies will be protected in covered perambulators, into which masked ‘Nannies’ can pump air, forcing it through filter cans. Researchers are working on an infant’s mask with a nipple attachment.

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