Topical Guide 655
Mark Dorset
Historical Events: Korean War
Clothing Fashions: Pegged Pants
What a Piece of Work I Am, Chapter 7:
Denny, just back from Korea, played the part of the local hero. He was standing at the center of a bunch of lionizing friends, and Ariane watched for a moment from a distance, to examine her feelings before she moved in among the rest of his audience. She found that she was attracted to him, and that she liked the way he held everyone’s attention. Most of the other boys were wearing black pegged pants, but Denny was wearing slacks and a sports jacket, a shirt with the collar open, the points of the collar spread over the lapels of his jacket.
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. The war ceased with an armistice on 27 July 1953. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union while South Korea was supported by the United States and the United Nations (UN). […]
The combat ended on 27 July 1953 when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. The agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to separate North and South Korea, and allowed the return of prisoners. The Korean War was a major conflict of the Cold War and among the most destructive conflicts of the modern era, with approximately 3 million war fatalities and a larger proportional civilian death toll than World War II or the Vietnam War. It resulted in the destruction of virtually all of Korea’s major cities, with thousands of massacres committed by both sides—including the mass killing of tens of thousands of suspected communists by the South Korean government, and the torture and starvation of prisoners of war by the North Koreans. North Korea became among the most heavily bombed countries in history. Over the course of the war 1.5 million North Koreans are estimated to have fled North Korea. No peace treaty was ever signed, and thus the two Koreas are still at war, engaged in a frozen conflict.
See also:
Clothing TG 486; Men’s Fashions: Armani, 1980s TG 531
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