Our Mother's War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II. (New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2004). Online Encyclopedia Entry; McEuen, Melissa A. "Women, Gender, and World War II." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, June 2016. Accessed July 14, 2017. During world war 2, girls were supposed to wear a dress with the length that reached their knees or skirts with blouses along with a woolen hat, headscarf, or a beret. World war 2 had a major impact on the fashion of women. The man-made fiber was developed, style and silhouettes of the dresses changed, the difference among various social. His father, Seth O. Bailey, was a veteran of World War I. Shortly after the U.S. entered World War II, Leighton Bailey enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in January 1942. A few months later, he married Helen Holbrook on March 17. During the war, Bailey fought at Guadalcanal, being wounded there twice..