100 YEARS AGO What to wear to work?

Today’s Times-Union’s Inquiring Reporter, hanging out at Proctors Hall, asked random folks whether they think employers should dictate their workers’ mode of dress.

Mrs. Wallace, a treasurer, said no. If a girl looks neat and trim her dress should be according to her taste.

But Mrs. Grant says, “certainly.” Employees should wear sensible clothes, “just as we nurses have a simple uniform.”

“The way business girls of today dress is a disgrace to the sex.,” she said.

Frank Harte, an inspector, was kinder.

“No. Let ‘em wear what they like ... as long as the work gets done,” Harte said.

—Times Union, April 3, 1922