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Mrs. James Laidlaw

Skirts down and hair up . . . rules for marchers

Marguerite Kearns October 18, 2011 6 Comments

Concerned in 1913 that they might be criticized for being unproper, the suffragists laid down  strict rules for marchers. See the article explaining how Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw didn’t like the looks of legs in a parade. “It looked very bad last year,” she explained, to see children’s long legs “bobbing” along. “This year we…

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