Original Title/Caption: “Safe clothes for women war workers. The up-swept hairdress, or any modification of it, is the ideal coiffure for war work. It's neat, it's becoming, and above all, it's SAFE. Bendix Aviation Plant, Brooklyn, New York.”

Description: This black and white photograph shows a woman with an up-swept hair style.  Her hair has been completely styled away from her face and neck.  The woman looks over her shoulder away from the camera.  This photograph was taken in March 1943 by Ann Rosener.

Source: Rosener, Ann, photographer.  “Safe clothes for women war workers. The up-swept hairdress, or any modification of it, is the ideal coiffure for war work. It's neat, it's becoming, and above all, it's SAFE. Bendix Aviation Plant, Brooklyn, New York.”  Photograph, 1943.  From Library of Congress: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Call number LC-USE6- D-009840.  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b09666 (accessed March 20, 2007).

Historical discussion: In 1943, J. E. Walters, Vice President of Personnel and Labor Relations of Revere Copper and Brass Incorporated, reported, "When women started working in the factories during World War II, the problem of proper clothing was suddenly found to be a serious one, both because of lost-time accidents resulting from clothing getting caught in the machines, and because of time lost by men ogling the girls in sweaters and skirts" (Walters 61).