Never wear loose clothes
Workplace-safety cartoon: a worker in baggy overalls, untied shoes and a long polka-dot tie holds a wrench and wears a dunce cap marked 'Axidunce', beside a sign reading 'Never wear loose clothes'. The cap and slumped pose ridicule the careless worker (name-calling by label); the danger itself is implied rather than shown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (cartoon signed Leo)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-441C (NAID 513902).
Text on the object
NEVER WEAR LOOSE CLOTHES AXIDUNCE [signature:] Leo FOR OWI
