Blog: Life of Sophie

Man, I need some modern "lesbians in tweed suits" porn

 

Judging off that stripping video she put out, this suits her very well

 

Morning, beautiful 17c & Summer with high's of 23c and the last day of our holiday.

A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then.

Not all tweeds, but Sunday's Comfort pics..
Retro Lesbians, from the 1880's - 1970's.


And

Evelyn “Jackie” Bross and Catherine Barscz.
They arrested and brought to the Racine Avenue Police Station in Chicago in 1943 for violating the cross-dressing ordinance.

Their "Crime" wearing Men's style trousers & having slicked back short hair.
They did not have a good reception at that Police Station.

Bross was 19yrs at the time, and a machinist at a WWII defense plant & was of Cherokee heritage.
Bross and Barscz were arrested on their way home from work for violating Chicago's cross-dressing and public indecency ordinance.

Chicago outlawed cross-dressing (according to them public indecency) as early as 1851.

For the bulk of the city’s history cross-dressing was a type of indecent exposure.

The ordinance decrees that “If any person shall appear in a public plan/in a dress not belonging to his or her sex….

He or she shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense”.

When Bross appeared in court, Chicago was captivated by the story.

In court, Bross reportedly informed the judge that she chose to wear men’s clothing because it was “more comfortable than women’s clothes and handy for work.”

She openly declared, “I wish I was a boy. I never did anything wrong. I just like to wear men’s clothes… [but] everyone knows I’m a woman.”

In the end, Bross was ordered to see a court psychiatrist for six months and Chicago’s cross-dressing code was revised.

As of 1943, the code allowed for individuals to wear clothing of the opposite sex, provided it was not worn “with the intent to conceal his or her sex.”

Arrests continued in spite of the alteration and the Chicago code regarding cross-dressing
would not be eliminated until 1978.

 

I love the posters of Evelyn “Jackie” Bross and Catherine Barscz are now sale for €72.93

Its just a shame their descendants don't get a cut of it.

https://photos.com/featured/evelyn-...cz-chicago-history-museum.html?product=poster

 

Sadly I can find no reference to them after the Court case?

 

I got that, but they may of had nieces & nephews.

 

Wow!

Thanks muchly for the pictures and history lesson. Weird to think that less than 100 years ago women couldn't wear men's style trousers and now place like American Eagle sell "boyfriend" jeans.

 

OMG! The replacements found some old unused footage and made a "new" video for an old song...



Sorry, I am music nerding out, love the 'Mats...

 

Fascinating story I've never heard of. Brave ladies given the time, sad that there were such closed minds then, but then take a look around now and you realize we haven't evolved nearly as much as hoped(worse in some areas than others of course).

You know what really gets me? She was serving her country doing what was seen as a man's jobajob done almost exclusively by men, because they were all out at war, so many women then did. And to be arrested, sentenced to a psychologist, it's infuriating.

 

That gif should be the woman is 2019, the kid is us and the wall is 2020.

 

Morning!

Overcast, cool 14c with highs of 22c
and i'm back in work.

Government scientists making a announcement at 11am
London going back into lockdown?

Monday's Comfort pic
Cara

Raider got it right!
Those girls were real life "Rosie the Riveters"!

They heard FDR's appeal and helped the cause...

and how did they get repaid for it?

If you look at this cover of the Saturday Evening Post, trousers turned up and the girls?
and the year on the cover? 1943, the girls were arrested in.. 1943.

That's so my Monday.

 

Happy Monday to all, it's coffee time....

 

Hi, Mega busy day, not helped by Boris aka British Government
changing their mind again at working in a office/working from home.

Summer ended overnight with the Autumnal equinox today.

Tuesday's later than usual Comfort pics.
Some Elle (Fanning) love.


My Cousin (who lives with me) is off to Uni today.
Its going to be really strange for her, this is no ordinary year.

Off to the gym now for some boxing.

For him, any time, any place.