Those Dreadful Pants!
As Italy’s Foreign Minister and Il Duce’s_ son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano has an opportunity to ponder the customs of his enemies (says "Time"). The other week his "Telegrafo" of Leghorn found in ladies’ pants the common denominator of the Axis’ foes: "Pants for women first appeared in Bolshevik Russia . . . Snobs at British and U.S. summer resorts found the fashion interesting and perfected it . . . This is just another example of one of the many points in common between Communism and _plutocracy." "Telegrato" might have gone further, noting that the ladies of that other enemy of Totalitaria, China, have worn pants for many years. And so, until a recent Italian decree against them, did the Countess Ciano.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 119, 3 October 1941, Page 42
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118Those Dreadful Pants! New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 119, 3 October 1941, Page 42
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