Striping in heels

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Dave Mellor NJ

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Oh ya sure. They dressed like that and with heels to paint NOT!

That is a Ford publicity shot for sure. They took the best looking girl thay had, handed her a tool and said hold it like this, and maybe she is all of 16?
 
I would say she’s supposed to be painting the striping on side wall . Wonder if those tires are for a Lincoln? Look too big for a Model A, don’t think they would make such fancy tires for lowly trucks.Love these pictures too!
 
Times were different. Men used to wear a suit to fly on a plane. My Granfather's brother was an upholsterer that lined caskets for the Belmont Casket Co. He and all the guys wore a suit to work lining caskets.. They did take the jackets off once they started work. Ladies and gents dressed up to go to the dealership to buy a car. Men wore tophats, and a lot of women wore gloves shopping. Barbers wore bowties.

Times change. Heck I see people at church ...well you can imagine.
 
Women did wear dresses more often in that era ,and men dressed more formal too . My mother in law worked in a defense plant in Cleveland and she wore dresses, wore cotton or rayon socks or stockings. She worked on the shop floor. I have seen women in coveralls though in WW2 era photos assembling airplanes.
 
Obviously, she's a "pin-up" girl for promoting Goodyear tires: fancy dress, heels, spiffy wrist watch (most men still used pocket watches) and her left hand is resting on the painted white wall. Love the photos. LRF
 
old31 said:
Oh ya sure. They dressed like that and with heels to paint NOT!

That is a Ford publicity shot for sure. They took the best looking girl thay had, handed her a tool and said hold it like this, and maybe she is all of 16?
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Only it was a photo at Goodyear, not Ford.
 
Pinstriping was one of the highest paid jobs on the line. Ford was an equal opportunity employer if you knew your ‘place’. The Rouge foundry provided good pay primarily for black men, hot heavy and dirty, one of the hardest jobs at the plant. Women sewed upholstery, pinstriped and did lightweight assembly.

Bigotry and rascism was accepted in the thirties..
 
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