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The Daily Missoulian
Missoula, Missoula County, Montana
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El Paso High School students voluntarily adopt uniforms to cut living costs and ease social pressures on poorer pupils. Girls wear blue skirts and blouses; boys don olive drab cadet outfits amid compulsory military training. City's schools draw wealthy residents.
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ADOPT UNIFORM DRESS
El Paso, Texas.—Boys and girls of the El Paso high school have voluntarily agreed to adopt a uniform dress for school wear in an effort to reduce the high cost of living.
The uniform for the girl students consists of a blue serge skirt, a white "middie" blouse with black flowing tie and cotton stockings. The boys will wear the regulation high school cadet uniform of olive drab prescribed by the war department regulations governing high school cadet corps. Compulsory military training is a part of the cadet system at the local high school.
A number of wealthy mining men, cattle men and capitalists have located in El Paso because of the school advantages.
The standard of living among high school students, especially the girls, reached a point where it was stated the poorer students were embarrassed by their companions' expensive clothes and a protest resulted in the voluntary adoption of the regulation dress for both boys and girls.
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El Paso, Texas
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voluntary adoption of uniform dress by high school students to reduce high cost of living and address embarrassment to poorer students from expensive clothes.
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Boys and girls of the El Paso high school voluntarily agreed to adopt uniform dress for school wear. Girls' uniform: blue serge skirt, white middie blouse with black flowing tie, cotton stockings. Boys' uniform: regulation high school cadet uniform of olive drab per war department regulations. Compulsory military training is part of the cadet system. Wealthy mining men, cattle men, and capitalists have located in El Paso due to school advantages. Standard of living among students, especially girls, led to protest resulting in uniform adoption.