Newspaper: St. Louis Post-Dispatch answers an inquiry about women in male attire (1887)

Apparently, a reader wrote to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper asking about the law and women wearing male attire. The newspaper published this brief response in the “Answers to Correspondents” column.

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“Answers to Correspondents,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 22, 1887, p. 4.

Transcript:

LAW.—The city ordinances prohibit men or women from appearing on the streets in costumes unbecoming the sex. Under these ordinances a woman may be fined for appearing in male attire.