How times have changed...

Fashion police in Washington DC, June 30, 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrell, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee. Image Credit: National Photo Co.

Elementary schools also had that rule. Moms made clothes manually at that time... I'm bettin' Bill Norton just LOVED his job. Uptight folks are still trying to legislate how other people dress, conduct themselves. The targets just shift periodically. Sometimes I think those men just wanted an excuse to touch all those women's legs.

The best thing of this thread that although we are mostly from different countries and cultures, we have close ideas (most of us), agree on something, that women are free and equal to men, and no one have the right to impose something on them, thank you all friends. This has nothing to do with respect or "standards", and everything to do with control and objectification. Thanks to ideas like these, women are still treated as second-class citizens and rape culture abounds because rapists are not blamed, victims are. I guess the particulars in this image have changed, but unfortunately the underlying way of thinking has not.