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American Office Workers Ban Long Hemline
Office girls working in New York’s Empire State Building have announced that they have formed an association, pledged not to wear the new long skirts that fashion dictators are foistering on women the world over.
The founder of the movement, gave various reasons for the stand the club is taking. Typical complaints from some of the members are: “I would feel just like a tent,” “I don’t want to look as though I am always sitting down,” and “Think of the dirt we would pick up riding to work on the sub-way.”
Economic reasons are the strongest however; to wear the new fashions they must junk their present wardrobe; they will ask for rises to cope with their buying and apparently if they do not get the rise they go on strike.
And so the association slogan is: “To save America, save the