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Gravy Stockings and TNT Hair Dye: The Fascinating Fashions of WW2 (2018x59)

Udgivelsesdato: Mar 01, 2018

Mack Weldon: http://mackweldon.com/ USE CODE: brainfood If you happen to like our videos →→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! In this video: For fashion, even war is no excuse to let standards slip, as many British women found out during WW2. As part of doing their part for King and Country, they were strongly encouraged to contribute to the war effort by looking their best at all times. In fact, one bit of British war propaganda was literally “Beauty is your duty”… As you might imagine, this led to some rather ingenious solutions to solve the inevitable shortages of cosmetics and clothing that arose as a result of wartime rationing. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/11/gravy-stockings-tnt-hair-dye-fashion-ww2/ Sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/canary-girls-women-muntion-workers-in-wwi-turned-yellow-and-gave-birth-to-yellow-babies.html/2 http://www.historytoday.com/jane-thynne/fashion-and-third-reich http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/style/672724/wartime-fashion-rationing-World-War-II-clothes-1941 http://museumcrush.org/fashion-on-the-ration-the-story-of-clothing-on-the-home-front-during-world-war-two/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31719704 http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/8-facts-about-clothes-rationing-in-britain-during-the-second-world-war http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-clothes-rationing-affected-fashion-in-the-second-world-war http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11393852/Beauty-in-World-War-2-How-Britains-women-stayed-glamorous.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_effect http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/03/one-calorie-is-equivalent-to-one-gram-of-tnt-in-terms-of-energy/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-clothes-rationing-affected-fashion-in-th