'Make lisle the style': the politics of fashion in the Japanese silk boycott, 1937-1940. From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Glickman, Lawrence B. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Journal of Social History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

On a Friday afternoon in late January, 1938, a standing-room crowd of 600, including many of the leading society women of the District of Columbia, attended an unusual fashion show at the Wardman Park Theater. The hour-long pageant entitled, Life Without Silk: From Morning to Midnight in Cotton and Rayon, sponsored by the League of Women Shoppers (LWS), aimed, quite literally, to make a cause fashionable. Directed by Lee Simonson, the well-known scenic designer who wore a woolen nec...

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