{"id":4237,"date":"2018-09-29T20:19:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T20:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/29\/churchills-romper-suit-and-siren-suit\/"},"modified":"2018-09-29T20:19:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T20:19:29","slug":"churchills-romper-suit-and-siren-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/29\/churchills-romper-suit-and-siren-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Churchill&#8217;s Romper Suit and Siren Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4235 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Churchill_Romper_Suit_and_Siren_Suit_pinstripe.jpg?resize=544%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"544\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Churchill_Romper_Suit_and_Siren_Suit_pinstripe.jpg?w=544&amp;ssl=1 544w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Churchill_Romper_Suit_and_Siren_Suit_pinstripe.jpg?resize=159%2C300&amp;ssl=1 159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who knew?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px0px26px; padding:0px; color:rgb(51,51,51); font-family:Georgia,\" bitstreamcharterserif=\"bitstreamcharterserif\" _16px=\"font-size:_16px\" normal=\"white-space:normal\" _400=\"font-weight:_400\" _2text-indent0px=\"orphans:_2text-indent0px\" none=\"text-transform:none\" _2=\"widows:_2\" _0px=\"_-webkit-text-stroke-width:_0px\" rgb255255255=\"background-color:rgb255255255\" initial=\"text-decoration-color:initial\" left=\"text-align:left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turnbullandasser.eu\/all-for-onesie-the-siren-suit\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; outline: 0px;\">The story goes<\/a> that Winston Churchill noticed that bricklayers at his Chartwell Estate wore a heavy boiler suit. Next he went to his shirtmaker Turnbull &amp; Asser asking them to make a similar garment from a suit fabric. Winston Churchill was so thrilled with the result that he ordered a batch of siren suits in different fabrics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px0px26px; padding:0px; color:rgb(51,51,51); font-family:Georgia,\" bitstreamcharterserif=\"bitstreamcharterserif\" _16px=\"font-size:_16px\" normal=\"white-space:normal\" _400=\"font-weight:_400\" _2text-indent0px=\"orphans:_2text-indent0px\" none=\"text-transform:none\" _2=\"widows:_2\" _0px=\"_-webkit-text-stroke-width:_0px\" rgb255255255=\"background-color:rgb255255255\" initial=\"text-decoration-color:initial\" left=\"text-align:left\">The famous prime minister called his one-piece suit a \u201cromper suit\u201d. People dubbed it a siren suit though. When the sirens in London warned about bombers during WWII, Winston Churchill and citizens of London would swiftly put on a lightweight one-piece suit, \u201cthe siren suit\u201d, before going to a bomb shelter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sartorialnotes.com\/2017\/02\/01\/churchills-romper-suit-siren-suit\/\">https:\/\/sartorialnotes.com\/2017\/02\/01\/churchills-romper-suit-siren-suit\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/therake.com\/stories\/style\/the-overall-effect-and-call-of-the-siren-suit\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew? The story goes that Winston Churchill noticed that bricklayers at his Chartwell Estate wore a heavy boiler suit. Next he went to his shirtmaker Turnbull &amp; Asser asking them to make a similar garment from a suit fabric. Winston Churchill was so thrilled with the result that he ordered a batch of siren [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-16l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}