Margaret Thatcher

One of her greatest propaganda wins was establishing a reputation for frugality through the story that she bought her own ironing board to Downing Street: the anecdote turns up repeatedly in her obituaries, even though her claims on the public purse for living expenses in recent years suggest that parsimony wasn't quite such a priority for her.Sexy Services Costumes But the ironing board was the perfect emblem for her rule, because it united her command of the national economy with the acceptably female realm of domestic economy. 

And of all the slogans that opponents tried to pin on her, the one that stuck hardest was "Milk Snatcher". Documents released in 2001 showed that Thatcher had opposed the policy of withdrawing free school milk, but the monstrous anti-maternal image of a woman minister denying milk to children seemed to have an indestructible power. When Spitting Image satirised her,Sexy Military & Navy Costumes it stripped away her femininity. "The whole image was of an impenetrable hard body, the hair and clothes," says Sue Nicholson, who made costumes for the puppets. "As her term in office progressed,thong bikini she was portrayed in a more masculine way, ending up as a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill look-a-like." 

Mannish, mad-eyed Thatcher bullying her cabinet was a glorious caricature,Sexy Beer Girl Costumes but it overlooked how much she used flirting as means of control. In Jon Snow's retrospective Maggie and Me, over and over her former colleagues recall her ability to disarm them by coming slightly too close - and how ill-equipped they were to deal with it, when their only experience of commanding women up till then had been the matron at their public school.Cheap Bees Costumes