![]() ![]() It was a time framed by fear and bewilderment, but also often one of freedom, excitement and new experiences. Evacuation, air raids, deaths of family members, playmates and neighbours, the destruction of homes and familiar landscapes, disruption to schooling, fear of gas attacks, shortages, fathers away fighting and mothers working, homelessness and emergency accommodation – 34 million changes of address took place during the six years of the war – affected their lives.Ĭhildren were as much in the front line as adults. Seven children from the O’Rourke family sleeping with their mother in an air raid shelter under the railway arches in Bermondsey, London, November 1940 © IWM D1614ĭuring the war years, their lives were turned upside-down. In 1939, in England and Wales, the majority were very young – nearly 6 million were under 10 years old. The facepiece was red and the breathing section blue and green in an attempt to make them more friendly © IWM D5894 ![]() A young boy wears a ‘Mickey Mouse’ gas mask produced for children aged between two and five. And of course, a more classic art approach, which makes the whole miserable affair even more surreal and psychotic.The experience of children in Britain – forced to interact with the adult realities of the Second World War (September 1939 -September 1945) – is a largely untold story. Some kind of love story, or remains of it (and a very dubious "zen" on the right) - (image credit: Samuel Stimpert) Check out his site for more. Samuel Stimpert is another artist who takes gas mask fashion to extreme. (image credit: bob_basset) All these, and more, are for sale from the artist. Can you imagine the thrill of meeting such a thing in ![]() Other steampunk masks on his sites are even more mind-boggling and Spectacularly designed Canadian site UberBrain by Francis Koch: (image credit: UberBrain) Steampunk workshop writes about a leather mask by bob_busset: (image credit: bob_basset) Some Only appropriate that gas masks appear as accessories in various modernĪrt installations. walk into a bank in one of these, and dare the consequences: Gas-Masked Art is Hugely Popular It's I'd say these are monkey gas masks hanging from Cuddle up to them and die, for they don't provide any protection, of course. (image credit: gasmasklexikon) Knitted gas masks are infinitely more friendly-looking, aren't they? Creation of Teryakimoto. Conceived in 1944, it was a way to cope with constant fear of attack on US from enemy submarines. If you really need protection against gases and such - then you have toĪsk, could they not make the masks less ugly, and even cute in some way? Of course, they can! Witness a A Mickey Mouse Gas Mask designed for children of all ages (more info). Click on the image to see the full gallery: (image credit: Desiree Palman) However, Desiree Palman offers just such solutions. ![]() The other way of dealing with the unthinkable - is to disappear, or to totally blend with the surroundings. just joking, of course) - (image credit: modernmechanix) No Fear. Special Device for toddlers (which during peace time you could use as Little babies had the privilege of extra-protection back then. or maybe a way to freak out your dog, when he sees the whole household going out on a walk in this way - (image credit: modernmechanix and Garcia Lovrine) Even (image credit: ) Some of the strangest gas mask variations appeared on posters in recent history: Check out the women's expressions on the left: they range from disgust, disbelief, to some kind of a strained smile: (image credit: ) Industrial applications of gas masks are only appropriate, so their "freak factor" is significantly reduced: (image credit: ) Family-friendly?. (image credit: kansashumanities) (image credit: Thomas Scott) On this page we continue to collect the weirdest shots of human beings (and a few animals) in gas masks. Opinion, gas-masked children are creepier than anything Joker can come The recent "Joker" character tookĪnother approach to masks ("Why so serious?"), but in my humble Gas mask training for everybody in Russia (drills performed almostĮvery day) in the 30s. Name of some mad civil defense, of course. Plans to dress his whole subordinate populace in gas masks - in the Have a sneaking suspicion that some third-world dictator is hatching In the Wall" nightmare - gas masks are going to be around as long as WMD exist, and beyond. Normal human beings look like totalitarian monsters from "Another Brick "What Would Joker Wear?" Perhaps the creepiest sort ofĪpparel, designed for our safety, but in actual truth making perfectly ![]()
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