Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Oct. 28, 1943

They blow some dough; what was the hot lipstick of 1943?

“Thelma met me downtown,” Lowell wrote, and left no question of what they were doing. They were shopping.

Their purchases included shoes and socks for $6.49, a tablespread — I assume he means table cloth, which was a gift — for $2.06, a $3 deposit on a pair of glasses, and 68 cents on lipstick.

The shoes and socks cost $115 in current funds, the tableclot…