Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1917 — “Feminalls” Are Worn. [ARTICLE]

“Feminalls” Are Worn.

One of the packing houses in the stock yards in Chicago has persuaded its women employees to wear what it calls “femlnalls,” another form of overalls. The women at first objected, but as so much machinery with belts and other contrivances that are likely to catch in the dresses of women are used, the managers persuaded five women to try it, and it was then easy for the rest to don the femlnalls. In this particular place 7,000 women are employed, about three times as many as last year, and much of the work they do was formerly done by men.