Kinston, Nov. 3—Lenoir county girls who have discarded silk hose and dresses to do their bit toward alleviation of the cotton price situation are making a hit with young men acquaintances a “Wear Cotton” movement started in the public school at LaGrange last week has spread to the countryside around the town, and numbers of misses have donned cotton gowns and stockings. Leaders of the movement declare it is not a passing fad. The garment spun from the fleecy product of southern fields will not be discarded the moment the novelty has worn off.
“We’re in this thing to stay. Were all southern girls to wear cotton dresses this winter it would make a tremendous difference,” the Moseley Hall young women say.
Some attractive costumes have been devised. Fabrics made of cotton are as pretty as those of silk, it is claimed. And many a courting youth is blind to the difference. Loud prinys have been converted into striking creations. The girls will hardly wear cotton on Sundays, but many declare they will wear nothing else of weekays until conditions have improved.
Miss Ruth Burke, LaGrange, political leader and club woman, was one of the originators of the movement. Miss Burke says it is time for patriotic sacrifice. She is vice chairman of the Democratic county committee here and one of the most influential women in the section.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Nov. 4, 1926
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