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Show i I For Ladles in Army It's Same Old Story Of Clothes Problem CAMP LEE, VA. Apparently for a woman, in the Army or out, it is the same old story clothes. What the VVacs would like to know is how many wartime short skirts do they have to wear out before be-fore they get the New Look. Skirt length is a problem at this initial postwar Wac training center which this week graduated its first women's Regular Army basic-train-t ing company. The Army Quartermaster Corps has left over from the last war a supply of khaki skirts. That's fine for the taxpayers except in those days ladies admittedly had knees. President Trumand intends to stick by his cut in our military budget. Now knees are strictly covered. Whereas civilian women measure the length of their hems from the floor, Wacs a--e having to compute theirs from the knr.e down. The boss Wac, Col. Mary Hallar-en, Hallar-en, Lowell, Mass., has decreed hems 2V4 inches below the knee. There is hardly a Wac officer or enlisted woman who does not have a skirt with a faced hem or one let down at the waist. Uniforms are issued to enlisted Wacs. Officers buy theirs. Officers could go out and have a skirt tailored tail-ored a fashionable 10 inches from I, the. floor except for one reason: the military frowns on a lack of uniformity. uni-formity. But the postwar woman soldier has won one victory. Several years ago when civilian women and USO girls could look glamorous in pageboy page-boy bobs and shoulder-length hairdos, hair-dos, Wacs had to keep their hair "well above the collar." "But no one is able to describe just what 'well above the collar' means," said Colonel Hallaren. The new regulation is that coiffures must be neat and appropriate to tailored uniforms. |
