Asheville High School Boys Protest Girls' Rolled Stockings, May 5, 1925

Boys Shun Neckties in Protest Against Rolled Stockings. . . 600 Students of the Asheville High School Paraded the Corridors During the Day with Neckties Missing. . . School Head Is Against Students. . . But Boys Claim the Right to Show Adams’ Apples If the Girls Are Going to Show Their Knees

By the Associated Press

Asheville, May 5—Six hundred boy students at the local high school paraded through the corridors of the school this morning with their neckties removed as a protest against girl students who “roll their stockings.” A half dozen boys who appeared wearing neckties had this piece of their clothing taken off by the other boys.

J.W. Griffith, principal, announced at assembly that “the removal of the neckties was foolishness” and that the boy students may not go to class without neckties. Some of the teachers admitted the youths, others excluded them.

The necktie strike followed posting of notices in the corridors yesterday by the boys that unless the girls desist in “rolling their stockings” the boys would come to school sans neckties. The boys have come back with the statement that if they are kept out of classes the same actin should be taken against the girls. “If they can show their knees, we ought to be allowed to show our Adams’ apples,” said the youths.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, May 5, 1925

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