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Re: The Men In White
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Originally Posted by DerekJRipley
Of course, there's a long tradition of making dresses out of tripe in the north west, garinda.
During the war when fabrics were scarce, women would make clothes from tripe
and throughout Lancashire there arose large numbers of tripe dressers (often
back-room businesses) who dressed women in the finest garments made of
tripe.
Probably the first to dress in this way was Lady Ha Ha, wife of the notorious
traitor Lord Ha Ha, who caused a sensation when she wore a magnificent
off the shoulder white dress made from the finest Lancashire tripe at the opening
ceremony of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
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You're as daft as me.
I might like your book after all.
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