A Close Shave A Close Shave A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations. It is the third film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit, following "A Grand Day Out" (1989) and "The Wrong Trousers" (1993). In "A Close Shave," Wallace and Gromit uncover a plot to rustle sheep by a sinister dog. Like "The Wrong Trousers", it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Wallace (Peter Sallis) and Gromit operate a window cleaning business. As they clean the windows of a wool shop, Wallace falls for shopkeeper
Trousers pilots and other working women often wore trousers. Frequent photographs from the 1930s of actresses Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn in trousers helped make trousers acceptable for women. During World War II, women working in factories and doing other forms of "men's work" on war service wore trousers when the work demanded it. In the post-war era, trousers became acceptable casual wear for gardening, the beach, and other leisurely pursuits. Further, in Britain during World War II, because of the rationing of clothing, many women took to wearing their husbands' civilian clothes, including their trousers, to work while their husbands