South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-02

office between $50 A. NJ and P NJ Should
an employee not provide himself with office
in the office between the hours of $50 A. NJ. and
P. NJ. to the following requirements:
The - dress (No. -- pattern), sold in
sll 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
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
girl workers resented the charge that exposed
bceps and dimped 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 cssh straight and my dec-
NAL points in order. Furthermore, if some dumb
bell starts hanging onto the cage l tell him to
move They don't block traffic outside my
cell. Why, then, should they be starting all this
plain jane d-no-nonsense business? They'll be
putting us 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 one 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?
It isn't sanitary and there will be many more
reasons for not liking the rules
eve were told that could get the dresses
for S., but know better. We can't afford TO
buy several new dresses and it really isn't fair
If we want to go out to dinner or meet someone
after work. shall have to home first to
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 under the order were
the fifty girls who came 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 emphaticav that
they could take no time Off during the day for
identifying. She could have bobbed hair but
she could not fluff it on the banks time No
standard rules of dress put in force but a
committee Of employees delegated TO prevent
any ultra-happer from wearing anything extreme
The heads Of one of the Oldest department.
stores in New York found it necessary to redirect
the attention Of incpent fappers TO rules that
had been in existence for two years. These rules
prescribed blue or black dresses for winter to be
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 uniform, and in DAYTON
the National Cash Register Company has placed
bodied 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 flappeT.
The outcome Of this attitude toward doggy
dress may result in a uniform costume for al
women-for work-a-day tasks at any rate A