How do you say "talcum" in Italian?

If you review the news links on the lower righthand side of this page, you'll likely see references to the killer heatwave blistering its way through Italy and Greece, with my people dropping like baked flies. It's so hot, in fact, that the Telegraph reports: "With temperatures soaring, and air conditioners running at full blast, Italians have been ordered by the government to shed their ties in order to cool down. Livia Turco, the health minister, has sent a memo to "all government employees and private Italians" which states that the "small gesture" can lead to "an immediate fall in body temperature of between two and three degrees." Of course this doesn't sit well with everyone: Some Italians, the newspaper reports, consider it a "sartorial disgrace." Alain Elkann, a writer and the husband of Margherita Agnelli, the Fiat heiress, said it was impolite. "I have never failed to wear a tie in public in 40 years," he told the Corriere della Sera newspaper. At most, he would remove his jacket.

Since I was not planning on packing a tie, and Leslie doesn't own one, and, instead he'll be sporting his revealing linen shorts and me my wide-legged culottes, we, too, will be disgraceful in our own fashion, but cool (in every sense).