SLEEVES OF GIRL WORKERS
ORDERED DOWN TO ELBOWS.
The People's Gas Light and Coke Company at Chicago which employs 600 girls, ordered them all to abandon sleeveless dresses, to wear hats when on the street, and to avoid excessive makeup. The girl who fails to comply will be dismissed. Marshall Field and Company has banued slit sleeves and light hosiery, on the grounds that they "do not impart a dignified, business-like air."
Montgomery Ward and Company insists on sleeves and Miss Hortense Dickenson, head of 750 women employees at the Federal Reserve Bank, insists that they wear sleeves at least to the elbow "so that the men workers can forget about them." However, Miss Eleanor Erickson, head of Armour and Company's welfare department, believes sleeveless dresses are both cool and efficient.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15360, 8 October 1923, Page 9
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