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Girl Employees Have Right to Dress as Flappers, April 15, 1922

Girls Can Dress as They Desire

Cleveland, April 15—The “lingerie war” in Kansas doesn’t worry managers and owners of department stores in Cleveland.

After exhaustive discussion on the silk stocking, bobbed-hair question, members of the Retail Merchants’ Board here voted unanimously that “girl employees have the right to dress as they please.”

So girls in Cleveland stores may wear silk stockings and the latest styles in dress and bob their hair to their heart’s content.

The merchants, however, have one minor reservation.

They won’t guarantee silk hosiery their employes insist on wearing, according to W.H. Gray, secretary of the board.

“Many complaints have been received lately, asking for replacement of stockings which develop ‘runners’ too quickly,” Gray said.

“It is impossible to guarantee silk hosiery since one broken thread will start a run which soon destroys the stocking.”

Otherwise, the accoutrements of the “flapper,” and even the “superflapper” are officially approved here.

From the Charlotte News, Saturday afternoon, April 15, 1922

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