The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-02-08
SHOCKS WORN BY
EVERYBODY NOW
Working Women at,Last Can
Wear Something That's.
Comfortable.

Working women, put away your
worries! Rise up! Strike off the
shackles OF Clothes and emerge Free
and Untrammeled. The smock squad
is waiting to claim you for its own
From time. to time apparently al
truistic persons step forward and of
fer gratis to the. world at large beau
tiful sounding suggestions anent tbs
clothes OF the Working Woman. They
mention Decent dresses and 25-ceni
hats, all put on the market that tn:
working woman may dress cheaply
becomingly and modestly on next-to
nothing per month. AS IL she could
be anything but modest at that price
and get away with it! 1t costs money
to go about in a becoming state OF
undress these days. All, all Is pure
unadulterated bunk. The person who
breaches the 95-cent dress Is usually q
man. Like the spinster. who has
such excellent views on thu Proper
Care OF the Child, he has very little
first hand Information Of his subject
That is probably why he is so optimis
tic about IL.
But here, Working women-and
Men, too, IL you want it's at last a
suggestion all wool and a yard wide.
The solution of the Clothes problem
is-the Smock,
There is nothing so bad for the
habit Of neatness as Work, particu-
lsrly in the female of the species.
Soon, however, the novelty begins
to wear on. She learns to sleep right
through the ringing OF the United
Cigar Stores coupon alarm clock or
to silence it With a pillow. She arises
late. The retult is a wild scramble
for clothes, an unchewed, undigested
breakfast and a rush for the subway
or elevated. whats the use9" think
the girl, II shall get dirty at the OF.
flee, anyway. Why bother to put on a
clean blouse when IL will soil so
quickly" Here is where the smock
comes In!
A smock is a loose, shirtlike affair
that may be slipped on over blouse
or dress. And the working girl can
wear as many clean blouses as she
wants to or the housekeeper as
dainty a dress. The smock will keep
her immaculate.
Suppose the working woman has a
luncheon or dinner engagement. She
cannot go home first TO change ner
clothing. She must keep the engage
ment right from business. Her every
day -uit, perhaps, Is shabby. She
does not wish to wear that. But a
good suit is too nice for office wear
Things there are so dirty, and when
a dress has once been worn to work
the owner no longer feels dressed
up in it. Here is another use for
the smock. 1t can very easily be
slipped on over the good suit. Al
luncheon or dinner time II can be
taken off again. The woman energies
clean and well dressed. A little work
with comb and nail file-she is fit 10
go anywhere.
A smock is an extremely simple
thing to make. 1t can be of any ma
teriaI, from coarsest cambria to finest
China silk, Of any length, from waist
to hem OF skirt. 1t may be slipped IN
over the head, or opened all the way
down the front, have white collar
or none at all, be belted in or loose
and baggy.
Now, then, working women, do
away with the shine on the back Of
that skirt. Stop wiping up your desk
with the cuffs of your waist WON
ans place is in the smock. Shocks
for women! Smocks for women!