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It was never "too hot" for ladies to wear gloves (or hats, or girdles, or stockings, or high heels).
No Army wife would DREAM of showing up at the base Commander's home except perfectly dressed in gloves, etc. Even today you'd do your best.
Wait, Lily's husband, a WEST POINTER, was not a "real soldier" to her career Army father because...wait for it...he studied engineering?? Does this woman know ANYTHING about West Point??? It is an ENGINEERING s ...more
Who picked the awful reader?
It was never "too hot" for ladies to wear gloves (or hats, or girdles, or stockings, or high heels).
No Army wife would DREAM of showing up at the base Commander's home except perfectly dressed in gloves, etc. Even today you'd do your best.
Wait, Lily's husband, a WEST POINTER, was not a "real soldier" to her career Army father because...wait for it...he studied engineering?? Does this woman know ANYTHING about West Point??? It is an ENGINEERING s ...more

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