Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1916 — BLAMES FUR-TOPPED SHOES [ARTICLE]

BLAMES FUR-TOPPED SHOES

Oklahoma City Woman Declares Footwear Invites Flirting— Complains to the Mayor. Oklahoma City.—“ Why don’t you stop this flirting that is going on all the time?” asked a woman of sour visage, who visited the mayor’s office.

The mayor said he didn’t know there had been any flirting. "Well, there has and there is," said the woman. "Who is doing It?” inquired the mayor. • "Men and women, boys and girls,” replied the visitor, "and the girls are just as bad as the men. I can show you girls on the streets right now who ought to be arrested.” "In what way do they flirt?” asked the patient mayor. "By looking .sideways. at the men and by wearing fur-topped shoes and dresses half way up to their knees,” said the woman. "You’ve seen them, haven’t you? And you know they’re disgraceful, don’t you?” Mayor Overholser said there was no ordinance regulating women’s attire to that extent. “Then pass an ordinance,” insisted the visitor. “Put a heavy fine on the girls who wear fur-topped shoes and short dresses, or else on the men who look at them.” The mayor sighed wearily. "If you don’t,” the woman continued, "this town will go to the devil. It’s going there now, with Its fur-top shoes and flirting.”