Show L 1 Should the Business Girl Dress r f as Though Going to Work Wark ort or a Party Pt S t GI GIS S cavE tJ TU To WO S G Lt I O DAY DAYS S Rs L NT 1 r F tons S E EtL tL uA T i tip i 0 F fd 1 F l M W tJ T s If r Skirts Cut Too High and Her V-Necks V I Too T 00 Low Head of Local Concern Dees Dees Dees De- De es Its Young Women Clad selves r Too Flashily Flashily What Say You Is Charge harge True frue of Feminine Workers Genly Gen- Gen ln ly z f DOES bES the busi business ss girl wear wear to work l SHOULD HOULD the business girl wear to work l like to receive answers to those two q questions fromM from fromM vM M M readers Is there any truth in the charge that the girl the girl who works in shop or office dresses imand imand imand im- im and unsuitably For For For-a a crystallization of many scat- scat cis is ms-a ms ns-a ns a local concern has censored officially the cos- cos Eby by its young women have have- li ye yeb b been en asked t id to give up whitewashed noses elaborate I Swiss cheese shirt waists striped silk stockings and ex- ex lort it skirts during busi- busi pretend nd to dictate to our ouren en how they shall dress ri n ral al manager We Ve do Q to their making attractive object t to tp their coming ces es in skirts almost to their chests bared and their I I as if they were going r e Is not fit for a business want our young women ess eBS women at least while this his office We Ve are suf- suf rested in the young wo wo t employ to wish them all fred fired ired as not to attract adam ad- ad ism am on the street We Ve that they do not come to tod tod tod d d' d as if they were at a aej af ar r f ej remarks apply Justly crage business girl in L Are Aro her hor clothes very T JI Does she ehe paint and andIs ands Is s she an imitation fash- fash thOr Or is she a modestly una ing woman r What have the girls who read THE TELEGRAM to say about their manner of dress And how does it impress the tho men of to today today today to- to day Are Aro they satisfied with the tho v appearance of the young women who work with and for fop them We should like to receive letters on both sides of this really important question Let Us Have Havo Your Testimony On the tho Subject So early m its iI the discussion we e do not think it fair fall to state any cast Iron personal convictions Indeed we haven't any any we wo want first to hear your testimony But as we have gone about down town Salt Lake at the hours when the stenographers tho the bookkeepers and the telephone operators operators opera opera- tors swarm from their skyscraping bee hives we have wondered mildly how much higher skirts could soul de go and still be he skirts how much deeper V necks V-necks could be cut and still be comfortable in a temperate climate At Main 1 and Third South we saw the other day a girl whom at first we wo took to be the heroine of a film play and therefore superior to all laws or Jo ny x r S NS' NS JU L OFFICE t conventional costuming However a a. camera was nowhere in sight eight and and a stenographers stenographer's notebook was She wore a purple silk sill frock with pannier flounces over r. r each hip and long transparent transparent transparent trans trans- parent sleeves showing every bone in her thin elbows The skirt was at least fifteen Inches from the ground and there was a generous display of purple and white striped stockings The blouse was cut down in front to a a. point which is only permissible at the opera opra the young persons person's nose was plaster white her cheeks shell pink She wore a a. picturesque but highly velvet tam o And she he looked as out of place as a a. peacock in a boiler factory Slit and Hobble Skirts Used to Be Bo the tho Rage A few years ago the tho downtown downtown girl specialized in lit slit elit skirts hobble skirts tight hug frocks bare lare arms and no petticoats Of ot course many self helf- respectIng young oung women never noyer donned even In their hours hourI of If such r regalia lalia case ease But Bu the sartorial scheme we have described or others resembling it are common in Salt LakeIt Lake It seems to us u that the tho sensible and attractive dress for a business businesswoman businesswoman businesswoman woman Is a neat well fitting suit with an ankle length skirt a plainly plain plain- ly cut shirt waist waist a a simple mple sailor hat A business office really isn't a cabaret or a garden party Then why dress a part which one is is not allowed to play That's bad art artand artand artand and bad sense However perhaps the business girl gin of today is dressing with good taste and propriety Lets Let's hear her in de defense defense de- de tense of herself and lets let's hear from her critics If it she sho tins has any |