Slacks Or Skirts?
[NITED States women by the million, according to the newsmagazine "Time," have renounced skirts in favour of slacks. And the women pants- purchasers are not just the perfect 36s, but 40s, even 42s. Unbelieving manufacturers, who up to now had made slacks mainly in Garbo and Hepburn sizes, were caught unprepared by unprecedented orders for large sizes, Not since Mrs. Amelia Bloomer created an international uproar in 1849 by appearing in public in voluminous Turkish trousers has such a feminine trouser sensation swept the country. High School girls in Brooklyn struck for the right to wear slacks. In Detroit the mayor grudgingly admitted that a fernale employee of the city, forced to bicycle to work, might do her job in slacks. Pants make good sense for war time. LieutenantCommander Roy R. Darron ordered women employed in the machine shops of the Alameda Naval Air Station in California to wear pants to work. To reassure nervous pants-pros-pects, "Vogue" printed a "Primer on Pants’, specifying: When to Wear Slacks (in the country, war service duty, other hard work); How to Buy Them (snug-fitting or closely-woven fabrics to hold shape; with fly front to camoutlage depth through middle); How to Wear Them (with simple jewellery, low-heeled shoes, and unselfconsciously); then destructively summed up: "Slacks look wonderful when they’re right, incredibly bad when they’re wrong ....A skirt is never wrong."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 158, 3 July 1942, Page 13
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229Slacks Or Skirts? New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 158, 3 July 1942, Page 13
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