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A British Museum Is Searching for a Rare 1940s Housecoat From a Fashion Brand That Dressed the Queen—and, on Special Occasions, Ordinary Women Too

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During the 1940s and ’50s, stylish ladies across Britain dazzled in the playfully patterned, brightly colored dresses of Horrockses Fashions, a popular clothing brand based in the city of Preston in northern England. Horrockses counted Queen Elizabeth II among its notable fans, but its prices were also within reach of ordinary women searching for a…