Was it moisture wicking?
That’s why “big fashion” had to have her killed.....
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If only she had studied radio communication, she might have made it home. Like too many women, she was only interested in broadcasting her voice, and never learned that the antennae was required to receive transmissions and communicate effectively.
Ironically, none of the clothes were waterproof.
She came clothes to making it.
Her fame into aviation by crashing? Everyone knows she was a lousy aviator. Good aviators know their planes limitations and their own limitations.
She was mostly a marketing gimmick who wound up believing her pr, to her cost.
She also design luggage... American Tourister discontinued it around 1995.
For the record, many women produced clothing, in house.
The basements of J.C. Penney stores were jammed with sewing gear, patterns, and materials.
There were children’s stores, women’s stores, and men’s stores.
Separate stores for suits, for dresses, for shoes, for boots.
Repair stores dedicated to each.
Very large, multi-floor industrial buildings that were filled with all the necessary raw materials - and also manufactured enormous bolts of fabric.
I miss the skill level - you could trust MANY people to properly cut and sew, making a dress, a suit, a pair of boots or shoes, a fine, insulated winter coat.
Up to, and thru, and after Amelia Earhart.
All those men my have identified as women, and there are no genders or sexes anyway, so this article is moot.