Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-20
First Time They Have APP
peared Locally - Traffic
Almost Blocked &C roWds
Followed Girls, Who SEEM
ed UnConCerned

Women's knickerbockers have ar
rived in Atlanta. True to her slogan
of being always ahead" Atlanta
gets them a few days after the ca
bles bring the news that women in
Paris have discarded skirts for nu-
merous outdoor occasions and put on
pants. New York got them first, fol-
lowing the startling news from Paris;
Atlanta gets them next.
simultaneously, or whereabouts,
the knickerbockers appeared in two
places Friday. One was the show
window of J. P. Allen & Co., where a
couple of wax models wore them on
a turf Of artificial grass, with golf
clubs and caddie bags to give touch
Of club life. The other was the side
walk across the street, where cou-
pie of very handsome young women,
not made Of wax, wore knickerbock-
er suits on the sidewalk and moved
along in them nonchalantly, swing
ing swagger sticks and pretending
not to observe the notice they at
tracted.
The show window models were
getting much attention from people
Of both sexes and all ages-until
the new suits appeared in flesh and
blood wearers. They did not quite
block traffic nor were they arrested
for wearing male attire, as girl globe
trotters have sometimes been arrest
ed in garments quite similar. But
they created quite enough excitement
to get under the skin of the blase
throngs along Peachtree and White
hall.
StrolIing northward on the east
sidewalk of Whitehall, the handsome
girls in Knockers suddenly caught the
eye of well-matured citizens stand
ing in the entrance of the Atlanta
National Bank building. His eyes
popped out, his gray mustache bris-
tied, his face broke into a smile Of
ecstacy. A friend standing by him,
with whom he was conversing when
the girls came by, found himself de-
serted. The gray-mustached citizen
could not see enough from where he
stood. He seemed to recall that an
urgent engagement was calling him
north-on the east side of Whitehall.
At Five Points
Five Points was thronged, as 1t
always is. The girls got caught be-
tween streams of traffic and had to
stand in the middle Of the roadway
several moments. Automobile driv-
ers, street car motormen, mothers
dragging children through the mael-
strom, experienced extreme difficult
ty in keeping their minds upon their
business. Seeming excitement, the
swarm Of young bloods in front Of
Pitts place commenced to stir vio-
Iently. Tie commotion they created
was something similar to a school
of sharks around the wake Of a YES
sci from which raw meat is pitched
overheard Half-finished soft drinks
were dropped on the counter inside
Of the place, and the drinkers bolted
to the doors. Similar scenes &C.
Cured in front of Cones and in front
of Nunnally's, where the usual con-
gregations Of young and very alert
gentlemen, who let slip nothing
were gathered around. Likewise in
convey of lobby lizards and several
elderly gentlemen, lolling in the
leather inside of the parlor. seemed
just on the point of leaping to the
sidewalk to get a full view
A lady with a wig, a hat erected
on top Of her head like a weather
cock, and an eye like a catfish, was
standing in the doorway of a tele-
graph branch office. Her j, back