Life in 1940

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Thu 14 Aug 2008 23:24
Life in 1940 - L'escargot
"Men were advised to leave their shirt tails hanging out if they went out after dark, so they could be seen by cars with dimmed headlights." tinyurl.com/6q5tum
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Fri 15 Aug 2008 00:32
Life in 1940 - welshlad
is that little snippet the result of research or personal experience ;-)
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Fri 15 Aug 2008 08:05
Life in 1940 - L'escargot
is that little snippet the result of research or personal experience ;-)


A bit of both.
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Fri 15 Aug 2008 00:48
Life in 1940 - Screwloose

Wouldn't that have meant that they were walking on the wrong side of the road?
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Fri 15 Aug 2008 08:04
Life in 1940 - L'escargot
Wouldn't that have meant that they were walking on the wrong side of the road?


Shirt tails were so long in those days that they would have been visible from both directions unless the walker was wearing the ubiquitous raincoat.
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Fri 15 Aug 2008 09:24
Life in 1940 - Cliff Pope
What were women advised to do?
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Fri 15 Aug 2008 10:29
Life in 1940 - In Theory
What were women advised to do?


Wait patiently at home for their man to return, I suspect.
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Fri 15 Aug 2008 12:18
Life in 1940 - Dog
They still do that in Soho ... I hear.
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Sun 17 Aug 2008 21:50
Life in 1940 - zookeeper
a bit unfortunate if you happened to be a black shirt in more ways than one!
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Mon 18 Aug 2008 07:43
Life in 1940 - Ian (Cape Town)
I recall reading this in a brilliant Punch article around one VE day.
The article was about wartime motoring, and entitled "In which we swerved"

There was also a story of ponies being painted with horizontal white stripes across their rumps for the same reason.
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Mon 18 Aug 2008 21:18
Life in 1940 - Avant
If you want to get an idea of what life was like in 1940, just sit in a Rover 75 and gaze at the dark brown dashboard and sepia-coloured instruments.

Edited by Avant on 18/08/2008 at 21:19

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Tue 19 Aug 2008 00:44
Life in 1940 - Ben 10
Talking of Rovers. When they went bust they had a runway stacked with them. Have they all been shifted?
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Tue 19 Aug 2008 01:00
Life in 1940 - Stuartli
I can only hope that they spotted my nappies...:-)
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Tue 19 Aug 2008 01:00
Life in 1940 - spikeyhead {p}
Yes, the last ones finally went about six months ago.
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Tue 19 Aug 2008 01:16
Life in 1940 - Stuartli
Nappies or Rovers...:-)

I'm assuming it's the latter....
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Tue 19 Aug 2008 18:32
Life in 1940 - Pugugly
....and let's avoid the obvious remarks !
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