Pocket Square with Argyle....yay or nay?

[starbkjrus]

During the Great Depression, a turned-out pocket, usually a trouser pocket, was known as a "Hoover flag", in reference to President Hoover. That's what I thought of when I read this thread.

Regards,

Todd

Are you sure they weren't just hoovering the cat hair off the trousers and caught the pocket lining?

[macwilkin]

Are you sure they weren't just hoovering the cat hair off the trousers and caught the pocket lining?

No, I'm being serious. "Hoover blankets" were newspapers. A "Hooverville" was a collection of ramshackle lean-tos and tents, the most famous being on the Ancostia Flats in Washington during the Bonus March.

T.