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Par Miss Lantin le 2 Mai 2015 à 18:36
• The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a baby girl weighing 8lbs 3oz
• The baby was born at 8.34am, just two and a half hours after the Duchess was admitted
• Duke and Duchess expected to leave hospital with their baby today
• No news on the baby's name yet
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Par Miss Lantin le 22 Février 2015 à 04:34
On 11 September 1939, Constance Miles of Guildford went up to town. Hitler or no Hitler, she needed a new winter coat. But as Mrs Miles made her way around the West End it was immediately apparent that something had changed in the eight days since war had been declared. People had stopped spending money on clothes, or at least on the sort of clothes that made a splash. At Swan & Edgar Mrs Miles glanced in at the “great evening dress department, all pretty models, with not one soul buying”.
That wasn’t the only thing that had changed. As she crossed Piccadilly Circus in search of her new winter coat, she would have noticed the large number of people who were already in uniform. Eventually a third of the adult population would be wearing khaki, navy blue, steel blue, forest green or one of the other colours of official service. It must have felt, suggests Laura Clouting, curator of the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition Fashion on the Ration: 1940s Street Style, “as if the visual landscape had been transformed: even before the first bomb had dropped you were navigating the world differently”. As a civilian, one of Mrs Miles’s first tasks would be to learn how to read all these signs and markers of the new authority, to know who was a regular fireman, who was a volunteer, whose directions it was worth following, and whether it was a good idea to try flirting with the man in navy blue.
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Par Miss Lantin le 24 Janvier 2015 à 07:21
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