South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-23

office between $3.50 A. NJ. and P. NJ. Should
an employee not provide himself with an office
in the office between the hours of $3.50 A M. and
P. M. to the following requirements:
THE - dress (No. - pattern), sold In
al stores at a cost of SIS, must be worn and must
be provided by the employers in either blue black
or brown, and sleeves must not be shortened
above the elbow. The dress must not be worn
higher than twelve inches from the ground
These requirements are positive"
This order caused all the Indignation that
might have been expected. In the first place the
biceps and dimpled knees initiated against eff
cheney. The girl whose get-up started the in
vestigation contended that she couldn't be held
responsible for the wandering brain of some
weak-witted mothers boy.
"These low-hipped gobbies never worry me-"
she said. Il keep my cash straight and my deci-
NAL points in order. Furthermore, IL some dumb
bell starts hanging onto the cage tell him to
move on They don't block traffic outside my
cell. Why, then, should they be starting all this
plan-j business7 They'll be-
putting in gunnysacks with nothing but our
hands sticking out the next thing you know"
The Inconvenience of It
at won't work OUT another girl predicted
"For thing, it isn't sanitary. How do they
think we can afford to have office dresses enough
to change around in, and outside clothes besides
1t isn't sanitary and there will be many more
reasons for not liking the rules
1--WE were told that we could get the dresses
for So, but l know better. We can't afford 70
buy several dresses and it really isn't fair.
If we want to go out to dinner or meet someone
after work, shall have to run home first 70
change"
Nevertheless, despite all this indignation.
when the time came, all Of the girls affected bv
the order came to work in the prescribed dress.
The first group who came under the order ,vara
the fifty girls who in contact with the public
COncurrently with the action of the Newark
Bank, female employees of the Federal Reserve
Bank in New York were told emphaticallv that
they could take no time off during the dav for
identifying She could have bobbed hair but
she could not fluff it the banks time. No
standard rules Of dress were put in force but a
committee of employees was delegated to prevent
any ultra-fapper from wearing anything extreme.
The heads of one Of the Oldest department
stores in New York found it necessary to redirect
the attention Of incipient fappers to rules that
had been in existence for two years. These rules
prescribed blue OF black dresses for winter To he
varied by white waist in summer The stock
ings and shoes must be black at all times and
the dress must be not too high at the bottom and
not too low at the top. In Detroit telephone
girls have been given a uniform, and in DAYTON
the National Cash Register Company has placed
bobbed hair, short skirts and silk hose under
the ban
These actions are typical Everywhere Bust.
ness is seeking to extirpate from the minds and
manners and appearances of their women en-
Ployes those peculiar manifestations of vitality
which make the fapper.
The outcome Of this attitude toward doggy
dress may result in uniform costume for all
women-for work-a-day tasks. at any rate A