The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-06
GiJv the Working Girl First Chance
to Shop, You Ladies With Leisure

shopping. I am left to wait for
another ten minutes. Being a
lady, worse luck, I control myself
and do not tell Mrs. Pussy that
I'd like to wiring her neck, since I,
too, have to get back to my job.
If you are working woman
you have undoubtedly had similar
experiences = plenty of them.
Probably you have felt as 1 did.
Glass privileges are dangerous
things. None know that better
than I do.
lived in Russia before the rev.
olution, was there when it started.
and had four uninterrupted years
IN which to watch-and suffer-
from the development of gigan-
tic set of new class privileges. But
right now I am all for some class
privileges for women who work.
WHY should we, who have to
W sandwich in our shopping
at odd and inconvenient mo-
mentS, be forced to waste precious
time while women of leisure pick
and fuss and dawdle?
incidentally, I've found that the
more time woman has for
shopping the less she knows what
1t is she really wants.
A smart appearance is of far
greater Importance to the woman
who works than to a woman of
leisure. In many cases the work.
er'S livelihood depends on her
trimness. 1t is no easy job to keep
up that "well-groomed" look on
the limited time and money which
the average girl who works has at
her disposal.
Yet do women of leisure have
any sympathy for these Difficult
ties? I've never seen any mani
tested during the moments I
snatch for my hurried shopping.
We women who work just have to
take our chance along with the
leisured-and vacillating-females
who crowd the stores.
n n
OF course, we women who work
~ might give up our appear
ance fight. We could wear uni
forms of some kind, use no cos
meticS, stop going to the hair
dresser; perhaps we could even
shave our heads. We certainly
would save lot of time that way
and give our sisters" who shop.
but do not toll, a grand break.
Various Utopian philosophers
have at various times suggested
such ideas. But, then, why the
should we, especially as we are
still lucky enough to live in a
world which is not run by ITO
plan philosophers? Perhaps one
day we will have laws of some
kind about clothes, but the
chances are that by that time
women of leisure Gf there are
any will have to wear uniforms.
too-probably even uglier ones
than those of the workers!
In the meantime, living as we
do in a nom Utopian forld, I, to-
gether with other wage-eMning
women, have distinct grievance
where shopping is concerned.
We women who work should
claim, have the right to maintain
our personal appearance and in
dulge our natural feminine vanity
at less cost of time than is now
possible.
NTE should have precedence
w over women of leisure when
we go shopping. Special passes or.
better still, an awe-inspiring
badge to be flashed at the cru
cial moment, should be our mark
of privilege.
Why does not some enterpris-
ing store, or group of stores, hand
out such badges to accredited
women workers, insuring thus
their precedence over the ladies
who do not have to shop on time
schedule?
1 personally, willingly will
pledge myself as a permanent Gus
toner to the first store that recog-
nizes our rights. Are you with me?