Saturday, April 5, 2025

New York City bootblack camouflages woman's legs

Above This news photograph, with the headline LOOK, GIRLS’ COOLER’N SILK HOSE, appeared in the Arizona Republican (August 3, 1919) with the following caption—

New York—No more will the busy bodies worry over the working girl’s silk hose. Not if said working girl adopts this latest New York fad. It’s the “Keep Cool Stockings, Stenciled While You aWait.” Miss Alice Monroe of Broadway is giving the bootblack in the picture the job of decorating her bare legs. Note the paper stencil and brush with which the “camouflage” is applied.

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