HW: (or NW:) Armour for everybody

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

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:
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> >
> > 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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