FUTURE OF THE PAST

Posted on Saturday 3 February 2007

Let’s dress you from skin to topcoat, to dramatize the coming clothing revolution. You break out your socks, underwear and shirt from factory-fresh packages. When you undress tonight you’ll toss them aside like disposable tissues. The laundry man is practically out of business, for it’s cheaper to have a standing order of new garments delivered every week or two than to have the old ones washed and ironed.

How Your Daily Life Will Be Changed After the War (Mechanix Illustrated, 1943, in Modern Mechanix)


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