That Trouser Complex (1931)
Strictly between ourselves, all the trouble over the emancipation of women began when Eve adopted trousers. In Champery, Switzerland, the ladies all wore M, S of Swiss women walking through a mountain village all wearing work wear trousers and jackets. The women all hold walking sticks. M, S of two of the women, the jackets are rather like granddad shirts, they button up with lots of small buttons. The women wear headscarves. And Mary the Mechanic did A woman moves down the side of scaffolding by means of a pulley system. Looks like she is very high up. She waves at the camera. View of the scene below her industrial scene. Eve soon found out that skirts were a hindrance when training M, S of a woman breaking in a horse. Various shots of the horse rearing up and running around the woman on a training rope. This is really a hewoman s job We see the woman in the saddle, the horse is still a bit flighty. Even trousers shortened when Eve got going acr
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