Will Bar Silk Dresses
Michigan School to Stop Competition in Clothes Among Students
Special to The New York Times.
MENOMINEE, Mich., Sept. 21--The Menominee County Agricultural School opens Monday, Sept. 29, and all girl students will be encouraged to wear plain "middy" and skirt as a school costume. Students will be allowed to wear dresses made from inexpensive materials, but silk dresses for every day school wear will be forbidden.
Several girls have dropped out of school because their parents could not afford to purchase the quality of clothing worn by others," says superintendent Kepler. "Each year the girls go a little further in trying to outclass each other in this respect. While we do not wish to destroy the individuality on the part of the girls, we do believe that the school is a place of work and not a dress affair."
[New York Times September 22, 1924, p.17]
Special to The New York Times.
MENOMINEE, Mich., Sept. 21--The Menominee County Agricultural School opens Monday, Sept. 29, and all girl students will be encouraged to wear plain "middy" and skirt as a school costume. Students will be allowed to wear dresses made from inexpensive materials, but silk dresses for every day school wear will be forbidden.
Several girls have dropped out of school because their parents could not afford to purchase the quality of clothing worn by others," says superintendent Kepler. "Each year the girls go a little further in trying to outclass each other in this respect. While we do not wish to destroy the individuality on the part of the girls, we do believe that the school is a place of work and not a dress affair."
[New York Times September 22, 1924, p.17]
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