HW: (or NW:) Armour for everybody

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> wasn't Gaynor the Damned a slave to his armour?
> rj


Yeah. And not the only one (both counts) :)

Christian

> J Strobridge wrote:
> >
> > Just remembered this:
> >
> > Andy Gilham writes:
> >
> > > On Tuesday, March 17, 1998 9:51 PM, Andrew A. Apold
[SMTP:mordru at MAGG.NET]
> > > wrote:
> snip
> > >
> > > What you may not know, and what I'm sure MM is aware of, is a famous
TV
> > > commercial from the 70s for ladies' undergarments, which featured the
> > > tag-line "my girdle's killing me!".  To which the wearer was told to
try
> > > the advertiser's product.
> >
> > There's also the short story by J.G. Ballard (perhaps also based on
> > the above?) about clothes made of material that adjusted itself to the
> > wearer's personality and a suit made of this material worn by someone
> > who committed a murder and which from then onwards had a tendency to
> > suffocate to death any other person who wore it and then got too
> > emotionally stressed.
> >
> > You are what you wear.
> >
> > jill
> >
> >
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> > J.D.Strobridge at ed.ac.uk
eset08 at holyrood.ed.ac.uk
> >
ELIJSA at srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk
> >
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