BOBBED HAIR

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 9

BOBBED HAIR

The ukase -which has gone forth against the waitresses in the railway refreshment rooms in New South Wales in regard to the manner in which they shall wear their hair has provoked indignation among them. They have been ordered to wear their hair tightly bobbed under their caps, and completely hidden from view. The girls, of whom there are several' hundred employed at the various railway refreshment rooms have taken their case to the Railway Union. If they were employed in the seclusion of a factory, they Bay, they would not worry over the new edict )( but they are constantly under the eye of the public, and they resent "being made to look ridiculous." The union chivalrously intends to take the matter up, on the ground that the order is an unwarrantable interference with the liberty, of the waitresses. Some time ago a;city firm of caterers formulated a similar rule, but the Hotel and Restaurant Employees'..Union got quickly to work, and the firm probably thought that discretion was the better part of valour—in other words, that it was better to let the girls do just what they liked with their hair, rather than have no one to serve the meals. The obnoxious regulation was withdrawn. "The fact that the waitresses have still to wear what they regard as badges of servitude in the farm of aprons and ridiculous white bows on their heads is bad enough, but to have to cast into oblivion the glory which has come down to them from the ages is the last straw," says one paper which is championing their cause.