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Originally Posted by sm_counsell
Sitting in my pram, unable to move as I was dressed in what they used to call a 'siren suit'!
I was two. Anyone remember siren suits and why were they called in this way??
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Yes my brother and sister, born in 1950, had siren suits though I don't remember having one myself.
They were an all in one garment like a jumpsuit, and I think it was Winston Churchill who popularised them during WWII. He certainly wore one. They were so called I think because they were a convenient garment to wear if you were in an air raid shelter during a bomb scare - when the sirens went off.
Siren suits and pin up pompadour curls Appletree Days