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Throughout the 1940s King continued to design for Hollywood, and in 1940 she abruptly closed her high-priced salon, claiming it was too elitist. She began working on a series of dress-design patterns for a women's magazine, offering quality patterns to women who could not afford her originals. In 1943 she designed Flying Fortress Fashions for women workers in the aircraft industry, which workers and critics adored.
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Women's Wear Daily, 14 September 1932, 28 September 1937, and 13 January 1942.
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