Originally Posted by ladyislingering

If pins/brooches with a lady's first initial were popular in the 1950s, did youths/young ladies also have certain garments with their initial sewn on (e.g.; cardigan, light jackets, etc.)?

Was that really a thing? (Putting together a historically accurate Halloween costume.)

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.