WHERE HAIRPINS AREN'T WORN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 135, 21 January 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

WHERE HAIRPINS AREN'T WORN.

WORKERS WITH SPECIAL DRESSES. Many people nowadays wear a dis. tinctive div-s or badge, which denotes their calling. Even girl guides, special constables, munit'on-workcrs, citizen soldier-, and women "policemen" can be s ngled out. Scores of other peoples wear their own trademarks. Gunners on board warship; plug their ears with cotton wool when the guns begin to roar. Women in gunpowder factories cover their hair wit a sort of bathing headgear and let down their hair before starting so r-> to make sure it contains no metal pins The men wear soft felt slippers and flannel suits having no pockets. Mineral-water bothers are provided with masks for I ear of burst bottles. These used to end at the chin, hut when a filler died through having Ins throat cut with a flying fragment of gins- they wryc extended to protect the neck. Fish-market porters are di-tinguish-•>d by their "'drippers." snuff grinders put on a fine veil, sewermen are eouipped with bliiespectacles, to save their eyes from the light, when emerging from a sewer, and glass cutters ii-" 1 a bang steel clip, gong over the head to deaden the brain-piercing sound made bv the glass against the revolving wheel.