Fashion Plates Adopt Armor Plate (Feb, 1940)
Filed under: Crime and Police, Personal Appearance — @ 5:33 am
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1940
| Buy on Ebay
Tags: headgear
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1940
| Buy on Ebay
Tags: headgear
Fashion Plates Adopt Armor Plate
MEN’S shops in London are now stocking a new line of merchandise for sale to customers who want special protection during possible enemy air raids. In their clothing departments, the stores are offering bulletproof waistcoats, or vests, in all sizes and in a wide variety of styles. Hat departments are keeping pace by supplying the traditional English bowler, or derby, specially fitted with a steel lining that makes it as protective against flying fragments as the metal helmets issued to soldiers.
