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DRESS AND "PERMS"

THE JAPANESE WAY From G a.in. on August 25, a group of more than 40 members of the Women’s National Defence League were sent out from Kobe to the factory districts to post bills urging women to avoid gaudy kimonos and dresses and conspicuous permanent waves. Simultaneously, during the morning rush hours, they handed leaflets to women whose appearance they considered not befitting "to the present national condition. The bills read: “The officers and men at the front are now enduring pains and hardships far beyond our imagination. In spite of this, there are women on the home front who do not realise that we are at war, and who are blindly driven by vanity. Please reflect and look and act as a woman on the home front should.”

Those who were handed those leaflets looked amazed at first, but when they read the contents they fled in embarrassment and disappeared among the crowd. Some among the men actually asked for these leaflets, saying that they wished to take them home to show their wives and daughters. All in nil, the officials said, the attempt was a huge success. Gendarmes will investigate as to how many women workers at offices, factories, etc., have conspicuous permanent waves, or suzumenosu (sparrownest) as they are generally termed, how many are clad in gaudy kimonos, where they are found most, etc. After several days of investigation, they will compile statistics, and, according to the outcome, strict measures will bo taken.

Meanwhile, following the precedent set by the Wakayama Prefecture, the Daiki contingent of Osaka have issued notices to various units and army hospitals within their jurisdiction to refuse admission interviews to those who fail to adapt themselves to existing conditions.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19401009.2.81.4

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Evening Star, Issue 23702, 9 October 1940, Page 11

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DRESS AND "PERMS" Evening Star, Issue 23702, 9 October 1940, Page 11

DRESS AND "PERMS" Evening Star, Issue 23702, 9 October 1940, Page 11

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