Flappers and Efficiency

     The modern girl with bobbed hair has at least one valiant defender in the person of a local manufacturer who employs a good deal of feminine help.  “Bobbed-haired girls,” he explains, “comb their tresses at their desks and are at work again in a few minutes.  Long locks mean a trip to the dressing room, several minutes fussing with the hair, and usually a long conversation with long-haired co-workers.  This means a daily loss of time that figures probably an hour.  Besides, the long-haired girls are more likely to be late mornings—it takes them longer to fix up.
     “That is why I hire only bobbed-haired stenographers.”

[“The Wall Street Journal Straws,” Wall Street Journal, September 11, 1923.]