A one-piece garment for the whole body which is easily put on or taken off, originally designed for use in air-raid shelters.
连衣裤,长罩衣,工作服(易于穿或脱的一件式全身装,原为在防空洞工作穿着而设计的。)
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The war had a dramatic effect on women's fashion. Women started to compromise by wearing overalls, dungarees, trousers, siren suits and making their own clothes.
I never gave it much thought, but if I had to describe a grandfather he would have been a loving and much-loved man, dressed in a siren suit.
Our siren suits were made of army surplus blankets and occasionally there was parachute silk to make underwear.
See inside the many and varied views of the great war leader who became renowned for his fondness for cigars, siren suits, hats and victory salutes.
We would get up in the middle of the night, I would be dressed in my specially made purple siren suit and we then went down into the shelter.
It became routine for Mum to get us into our siren suits and tuck us up into the bunk in the shelter each night.
Churchill broadcasted to the nation in his famous ‘siren suit’.
We were snug in our siren suits and were quietly playing, with one ear on the bangs, bumps and thuds that seemed to grow nearer.
The girl dressed in what pre-war we would have called a boiler suit and would later be described as a siren suit.
Winston Churchill started the fashion for siren suits.
Until the mid-1960s the siren suits were sewn in blue or red cotton or poplin with flannel lining.
They had only the clothes they stood up in, which were green siren suits.
During the war military styling influenced the women's fashion; they wore anything from trousers to one-piece siren suits.