Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1916 — Problem of Short Skirts Is Worrying Toledo [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Problem of Short Skirts Is Worrying Toledo

*1 OLEDO, O. —Toledo policemen are startled at the stupendous task that I has been set them through the ordinance prepared by Councilman Stanley Kryzsniak to the effect that women wearing skirts (on the streets) higher

than three inches above the ankle are to be punished by fine and imprisonment. Since the idea was published in the newspapers it has not perceptibly affected the fashions of the girls and women. « They should worry, it is said, seeing that first the policeman Will have to determine whether they are more than mere girls, which is no easy matter with collars higher than the chin -and hats that cover the eyes, ana, secondly, the officers of the law will

have W be astute students of anatomy In ascertaining where the ankles are before they attempt to make an arrest, •- ■ It is arg’’? r < tha* some women are very high ankled, and with the high white shoes or those of gray suede, M[r. Kryssniak may have to obtain a •quad Of specials to do the work.