Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-21
Overall Club Had
 It's Beginning in ,. Town in Florida

Tampa. Fla, April Whether the wearing of overa 5 and caiicos instead of blue serge, native Palm beaches, homespuns, voiles and other expensive clothing will bring down the high cost of dressing is an ex- pertinent first started here and now spreading through all Florida and into Alabama. The whole country now knows oft and has character ized it as %he Tampa idea
 The new style movement, it's ori- ginators say, is dictated in the spi- Tit of public duty and necessity and does not indicate any lessening of desire on the part of either men or women for good and stylish appa- rel. They think, however, that it is worth while to try to popularize overalls for men and calicos and ginghams for women and it is no secret that the feminine experiment ters are still looking for the return of silks. satins. organdies and the like to the limitations of their purse. So 1t came about that Hafford Jones, secretary of an insurance company, started the Overalls' Club of Tampa Each member pledged to wear overalls as a regular thing un- til clothing prices tumbled. Hund- reds have joined and many are mak- ing good. Others say they are keep ing the pledge just as faithfully by taking advantage of the clause which allows them to wear old clothes in lieu of overalls-iust so they don't buy any new stuff
 When the men organized the wo- men took up the battle, the New Thought and Unity Club, headed by Mrs. Clara Lawton Metcalf, pledging it's membership to calico dresses. All of this had it's first public dem sonstration on Easter Sunday
 Men and women. correctly garbed to harmonize with the new idea. gathered in the courthouse square Addresses were made, new pledges received. and petitions signed asking city. state and national officials to take notice and give aid. Merchants looked on and frowned, and later an- nounced that their sales had not fal- len off bit. They are not the only ones who smile knowingly at the movement and predict that just as the foregoing of the luscious porter house steak and choice rib roast in- creased the cost of brisket, chuck and rump, the abandonment of beau tiful silks and all wool garments will raise the cost of denims and calicoes.
 This overalis business IS only a fool joke, says one of the leading clothiers. Just as long as folks who work for wages demand fifteen dollar silk shirts, three-dollar silk neckties and two and a half-dollar silk socks, they will get them. And while they're buying that sort of stuff you may lay your heaviest bet on their also buying the best suits of clothing the market affords"
 The overalls club. however, insists that the war has only begun and that they'll stick it out and are gaining recruits in punches.
 The movement is being taken un all over the state. Clubs have been organized at Jacksonville. Lakeland. Center Hill and other places. If someone would come along with a cartload of sabots the folks might buy and take revenge on the boot sellers.
 A part of the Easter Sunday pro gram was for the denims and ealicos to pair off and go to church. Only a few couples had the nerve to stick it out and they presented odd Darby and Joan contrast to besilked and befeafhered women and ,aiior-mould- ed men,