The prime minister chats with Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower at a train station a month before the Normandy landings. Churchill’s distinctive garb—a “siren suit”—was of his own design: a one-piece garment that could be quickly donned before taking shelter during the Blitz. Churchill regularly wore them while meeting with politicians and dignitaries. His habits of dress amused his family and staff. Jock Colville, Churchill’s assistant private secretary, reported that his boss frequently wandered around the corridors of No. 10 “wearing a soldier’s steel helmet…a crimson dressing gown adorned by a golden dragon, and monogrammed slippers complete with pom-poms.” (Ullstein Bild/Getty Images)

The prime minister chats with Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower at a train station a month before the Normandy landings. Churchill’s distinctive garb—a “siren suit”—was of his own design: a one-piece garment that could be quickly donned before taking shelter during the Blitz. Churchill regularly wore them while meeting with politicians and dignitaries. His habits of dress amused his family and staff. Jock Colville, Churchill’s assistant private secretary, reported that his boss frequently wandered around the corridors of No. 10 “wearing a soldier’s steel helmet…a crimson dressing gown adorned by a golden dragon, and monogrammed slippers complete with pom-poms.” (Ullstein Bild/Getty Images)