"OVERALLS” FASHION
AMERICANS MOVE AGAINST DEAR SUITS. NEW YORK, April 12. Bankers, doctors, lawyers, and other professional men in Birmingham, one of hte principal towns in the cotton-growing district of Alabama, have joined a workmen's “Overalls Club” as a protest against the high price of clothing. The club has now a membership of 2500 men of all walks of life who wear blue dungaree overalls and smocks and declare tlytt they will not buy conventional clothes at the existing high prices. At a luncheon given yesterday for Senator Underwood guest;,: and waiters appeared in overalls. The movement is spreading in various southern cities, where “overalls parades” are being organised to pain recruits.
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Southland Times, Issue 18836, 1 June 1920, Page 6
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112"OVERALLS” FASHION Southland Times, Issue 18836, 1 June 1920, Page 6
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