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Show TUncle jfub from Punkintown sez: Dear Mister Editor: iWimmen's styles, like football schedules, is announced about a year in advance, and I've been reading that skirts will git longer this fall. I ain't paid much attention atten-tion to it because it ain't official until you see it in Sears and Roe-ibuck's Roe-ibuck's catalog. And anyhow, I been too busy keeping up with the situation in the Middle East to give it much heed. But last night I was turning the pages of the catalog cat-alog to see what kind of labor saving devices has been invented in case I wanted to do a little farming, and I got over in the wimmen's section by mistake. Right there in the catalog it said skirts w-as gitting longer. That made it official. Now here's what makes me mad about the situation. sit-uation. I 'ain't particular interested inter-ested in what wimmen wear or don't wear, but it's the fluctua tions that git me riled up. Knee-length, Knee-length, garter-length, calf-length, ankle length, or dragging the ground, it don't make no difference differ-ence to me. It's the switching every year that worries me. And they never go from low to high, you notice, because wimmen like . my old lady would just git the scissors and whack off a foot or two, but 'they fix it so's a woman has got to buy a new outfit. They ought to be a law about it. Just imagine how it would be if a man's pants went up or down a few foot ever time some guy with a wax mustache in Paris got a new idea. And there ought to be a law agin the catalog coming out and saying wimmen's dresses will 'be a foot longer this fall than last. This is a new form of taxation, what you might call "hidden" tax, hiding a gal's legs and hiding the tax all at the same time. Congress has already took notice of fluctuations in other things, fer instant price of cotton can't fluctuate more'n a certain amount per bale from one day to another. I'd like to see a law saying the length of a woman's wom-an's skirt couldn't fluctuate more'n one inch in any one year. It'd save a heap of money. But with them Wall Street boys having a heavy interest in the garment industry, I ain't got no real hopes fer such a law. I reckon it would be better fer me not to worry about such things, better if I'd just go along tending to my crops and leave wimmen's styles to Sears and Roebuck, but so far I ain't let the idea git any further than the thinking stage. Yours truly, UNCLE FUD. |