Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-18
CLOTHES LIMITED By LAW
In Dsys ~ Old Men and Women Wore
Legally Ee.trisfed Dre--..

VIII the var cause fhu country %
rrcHglgate laws regarding wODen's
1rssst
A. set ve have rnade no effort 20
reduce or expenditure for clothes
Indeed. we have been u-ge5 not %
econoWiz@ closely IN our expenditure
Pr clothes tecause any such scono-
mixing necessarily dlstufbs me eco
noflic conditions IN Industry and.
coIheq 1el'ly. puts many persons Out
- work
Al lcas: until Industrial conditions
nave a crarce 70 become id suEied %
ne rsa situation and Until women
s, ho are lDw erEeRr1 ln the wDrk q
u1E.Eg 1Tner women r frery and
ciotres aud have fpgnc complement
'lr some 81 th- many Industries Upon
n hlch the EICC-ss u the war uill de-
pend. Ne are urged not 20 make any
drastic changes In our buying q
clothes
u laws are later enacted governing
the hind - clothes ue may wear
they WI not - The first u their kind
~ ff.s cOurtry. Puritan New Eng
land tDasfsd ~ many laws c0uce ming
lnefy not only for women. tIt for
men as well Here Is a Law of the
. Aiaesschusetts colony passed IN 1894
that seems - cover the whole field.
The court. taxing into cOnsiderz-
ton the great HlpeTfluoub and unnec-
cssary expenses OccasiJned by some
new and immCdest fashion. as also
TIE ordinary wearing of silver. gyide
ard siike laces gi,dlcs. Rat bands.
etc. hath therefore ordered that no
person. either man or woman. shall
hereafter make, gr buy. any apparel,
either WOJlen. Filks. or lynen. with
q any lace On H. silver. gOide, slike or
tfreade under the penalty Of for
fcltufe Of such cloth
mo man or woman shall make or
buy any slsshed clothes other than
one slash in each sleeve or another In
he back. also al cut work. ernbroid-
cred or needle-wOrE caps. bands now
worn under the aforesaid penalty.
also all goide or silver girdles. hat
bands belts. ruffs. beaver hats are
prohibited 10 be worn. Men and
women shall have liberty 20 wear out
such apparel az they 5re now pro-
yided OF. (e1cept TIE immoderate
moderate great rayls. long wings,
cicJ. This order tc take place fort
: night after the publishing thereof"
These laws were not simply wordy
ftautes that received little attention.
We fiud that IN Northampton. 1888
women were arrested In 1876 and
charged with wearing wicked appar-
rell."
New Amsterdam had It's own trouble
with clothes. and Governor stuyNe-
saG- 30 says Washington Irving
Icnce ordered that f0unces should be
fastened around the bottom OF the
very short skirts then in vogue
II II difficult nowadays. when wo-
men wear breeches for riding and
even for motor driving and agricul-
tural work. 10 realize wha, "A tremcn-
dous sensation WAS caused only a
lttls moro than 2s years ago
when the rage FOR bicycling caused
many women "a put on bloomers for
that sport But IL u true that laws
were seriously thot Of against bloom
egs That IS 10 say there were var
ious efforts 10 arrest women in
Dloomers under the law that makes
IL Illegal for woman 10 appear In
male attire or a man 10 appear in
women's attire In the public streets.
Long before the days OF our ear
Hest struggles with the clothes uues-
ton, other countries had passed laws
In an effort to keep down extrava-
gance and excess In the matter OF ap-
parel. Sparta parsed laws permitting
a woman to wear no more than half
an ounce OF gold and 10 wear dresses
OF only one color.