Girls Must Go Back to Their Corsets
By the Associated Press
Muskogee, Okla., July 7—Girls employed at the soldiers’ hospital here must go back to corsets, quit bobbing their hair, roll up their hose and adopt high neck dresses, according to the ultimatum laid down by Miss Alice Robertson, former congresswoman, now welfare chief at the institution. “There has been too much laughing with the patients,” Miss Alice said. “Give the boys a run for their money; the girl a man admires most is one who he must fight for.”
“the woman who flagrantly displays her charms soon will be a back number. They are only toys with which men play and then cast aside.
“Lock up your diamonds when you are on duty. A display of wealth by a $100 month clerk will soon lead to comment by the public. I have been constantly in the association of men and never once heard an insulting remark in my presence. I never gave any one the occasion.
“Go back to corsets, girls, tend to business, wear decent clothes and don’t try to hark back to the days of Adam and Eve.”
From the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, July 8, 1923
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