Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-22

squaw. Smart. though, and took
her dictation without q hitch.
Smith, you see. is one of the
old fashioned kind that is raising
all this howl about the new girls
and their clothes, and here was a
splendid example of all he disap-
proved of asking him for job. We
could see that he was impressed
by her efficiency. though, so we
hung around waiting to see what
he would do. After q long silence
he finally said: I'm sorry. but !
cannot employ you, and l am go
ing to tell you why. You may
think me old fashioned. but | want
people with some degree of dignity
near me while L work. Now. with
your abbreviated hair and skirt
Transformation Lands JOB.
"'Oh, is that all?' asked the girl
in a relieved voice. Well, that is
n defect easily remedied. Longer
skirts are easily acquired, II you
insist upon them, and if you will
only watch patiently for few sec
onds | can show you that my mar
is not really bobbed at all say
ing which she took out few halr-
pins and removed the whole short
mart of it, Her own hair was neat
ly arranged in a soft, flat coil at
the back-as dignified looking
couture as even Smith could de-
sire. Smith was so surprised VI
first that his mouth fell open. ana
he had to cover up this loss OF dig
nifty by giving the girl a long lee
ture on her artificiality. Then ne
hired her at a good salary.
This view that business WomeL
should dress simply and incon,
spicuously has long been voiced
with mighty eloquence by various
groups for various reasons, but IL
has remained for a few bankers 70
come right out bluntly with the
great bjection-namely, the tact
that frivolous clothes have a DIS
tracing effect upon the male EN-
! ploye. .L 20
business are too distracting to the
young men IN the office" said one
CF This group, 1--WE are letting
them out as fast as we can"
This view is sharply challenged
nv Mary Alden Hopkins, in an ar
ticle recently published IN the ne"
Republic, in which she says:
"Why shouldn't she (the business
girl) wear as pretty, silly clothes
as the girl who stays at nome 70
help her mother? Earrings anu
strapped toes and -ligh heels anu
strings of barbaric beads anu
everything eise.
III you put it on the ground oil
simplicity for all girls and all Wo'
| men-why, that's another matter,
Maybe so and maybe not so. But
the idea that red and orange anu
nasturtium yellow and aster pur-
| Pile belong to the girl whose alloW-
lance comes from her father, Wilile
navy blue and dark brown are the
colors for the girl whose pay en-
yelope comes from her employer
| this seems to me not fair at all
WHY should a business girl be re-
lstricted to the type of costume that
no woman ever turns her head 10
look after on the street?
One Dress Must DO.
"Headliner business women wear
simple and transformations costumes
because they can afford to buy the
very best models and because by
the time they are headliners they
are beyond the rainbow age. bu'
Twinkletoes, earning fifteen
week. has one dress at time for
church, office and picnic. II there
is any zip in the child, that one
dress is going to be the liveliest she
can achieve. We would like hW 10
be Twlnkletoes before breakfast
and after supper, but Sobersides IN
| the street car and office But she
mas not money enough for TWO COS
tunes nor experience enough LOT
two personalities. She chooses
thank God--to be Twinkletoes
downtown as we'll as uptown.
For my part / am glad the
grouchy, prosperous employers can
mot suppress her youthful folly. l
adore the elusive beauty and silly
gaiety of young things coming anu
going from WORK. AT noon
the girl workers hurry along the
gray, stone-walled canyons, gay as
crocus bed in the spring sunshine,
| chattering like squirrels, ana heed-
less as bunch of puppies. MOI
enc in ten is wearing the modest
durable frock recently recommend
cd by fourteen clergymen. They
are girls first and working girls
second.
"Women of brains and courage
push their way into these ffoWnlng
buildings, and women of force ana
determination hold the big woman
Jobs in the financial districts. But
the silly little flapper has dared to
dress as she fashionably pleases.
in Wall street itself and powder her
nose right under her employer
frown. She Is the bravest OF them
ALL