The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-09
Working Girls Resent
Rich Sisters Advice
That They Dress Plain

mind they havc let quite nc bit pass,
not uunoticed, but without any par.
ticu,ar attention But when such a
thing as this arisUH II As about tino
We gave our opinion.
I'VE have really always fclt
| great pity for these 'riDh' people who
really do not know the happiness ~
/ life, 80 you can realize how absurd
/ IL would bo for ug 90 uas them how
we 9hould spend our money. Any
/ rich woman's suggestion on this sub
ject we would smile at and pass
over.
Upon reading these letters ono
would soc that thoy really thought
| they wore doing us a favor.
'Aa FAR az changing the style is
/ concerned, no doubt we all could
/ como 10 an agreement on that. but
/ when ono puts II that the rich should
/ put the poor IN their place you can
| soc Il places 10 In a different light.
! Especially when one takes into con
/ Alteration the fact that the class 70
/ which they are appealing for help
/ are always the ones who are the
/ first 10 buy and nuuut these styloa
/ TO the public
"a great number ot TN" so-cnllod
/ poor Eiiu have unfortunately copied
. The hah'ta as wcil ass the dress of tho
rich.
ALLOWING that some of the styles
| are absurd. I think vu can mostly all
agree as TO who rs To blame for
F them.
AS 20 the suggestion that thoy de-
sign different styles that We agree
upon, hut when some one suEEuaia
that people hc m1do tu drogs in
sunh "a munn,r ns Co make 90 easy
Tor the pisscrhy to know To- what
.aft O.. a.. t.a
say that 10 is worry insulting, and
f,rl sure hat IL greater majority will
agree with mv than Disagree.
Another reader Joints Miss l.. NJ.
, q 800 aasortlug this fu Doe free
country us far ut luns, 1s dress ia
p concerned
Tree Country ns To- Dress.
4 MY dear Miss RrN. aho brgina %
= read your article rcgualuE dress
y reform ana wish tu say That | as a
q sensible business girL ana not flap
o. per. suggest that thpa, wealthy IN.
q dies Of society wclr broad -toud Enoot
. aud tho like that they set tho oN
i ample OF dress ana 10 tho WORKING
l girls are improperly dressed $50 ar,
i these society ladies heruusr thcf
60 TO greater cXtromcs than tn,
working girl
< "HoW can "a government force O
y person 20 wear certain thing, CA
, [ pocially In America Isn't AmcrIc,
, / supposed To hc a free country ? Llh
ms have g.
"Slncoroly, Miss 4. c."
agree with /. NJ @. that design
. mado In America might do AVA
with some OF tho painful ONtrcWitlc
60 which the copicrs OF foreign fronl
STYLES have subjected us. CheapC
clothes are oftcn merely more o
less faithful copies OF eNpousiv,
models designed for women of leis
urc Tho copy, worn in q dirforcu
atmosphere than the ono which IN,
original was intended 90 grace, is re
voaled I'm the adsurdity which nigh
not ho apparent in less practicd
environments
llt I'm spite Of an her critics ",
notice that the average girl In office
and shop ls not hard uu the eye aut
is not apt to disgrace horsolf, hol
soN ur her employer by freak dress
ing
Many Suffer for Few Foolish.
OF course the young thing with
the aii-too-yisihIo knoCs prcpinr
Coyly through chiffon stockings, with
- foolish sleeves, impractical dreS,
y and with her Growing glory ~ frl2,
zed hobbed hair which would make
, a FIJI Handler throw coDunuuts at her
for this damsel and for her sIrr
e torial sins must all her follow work,
- crs Suffpr'
There are somo freaks i'm IN,
working world AS wuu as i'm society
y hut is II up 60 the leaders ina botl
a lines OF endcayor simply-wo won
d say Glasses" this is a democracy
Il to sCt a good eNlmplr2
y And let us have better clothes fol
q less money and not very chcaI
e copies Of things fit only for a mu
N steal eXtFayaganza, -.-