As the Fashion on the Ration exhibition opens at the Imperial War Museum, this extract from Julie Summers' book of the same name reveals how women's style changed forever in1940s Britain
In September 1939, just three weeks after the outbreak of war, Gladys Mason wrote briefly in her diary about events in 'Hitler watched German siege of
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