Editing Flapper (section)

=== American banks and "flapper" employees ===
According to a report in 1922, some banks across the United States started to regulate the dress and deportment of young female employees who were considered to be "flappers". It began with a complaint of a mother in New Jersey who felt dissatisfied because her son did business only with a young female employee, whom she considered illegally attractive. The incident was duly reported to the officials of the bank, and rules adopted regarding requirements in dress for female employees. Those rules included that the dress should not have a pattern, it should be bought from a specific store, it must be worn in either black, blue or brown, its sleeves must not be shortened above the elbow, and its hem must not be worn higher than 12 inches from the ground. After that, the anti-flapper code soon spread to the Federal Reserve, where female employees were firmly told that there was no time for them to beautify themselves during office hours.<ref>{{cite book | last=Ford | first=R.T. | title=Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History | publisher=Simon & Schuster | year=2022 | isbn=978-1-5011-8008-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dNpVEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA150 | access-date=December 20, 2024 | pages=149–150}}</ref>