It is not too much to say that the chief economic concern of a great body of women is how to get money to dress, not as they should, but as they want to.

It is to get money for clothes that drives many, though of course not the majority, of girls, into shops, factories, and offices.
It is because they are using all they earn on themselves that they are able to make the brave showing that they do.

Many a girl is misjudged by the well-meaning observer or investigator because of this fact--"She could never dress like that on $6, $8, or $15 a week and support herself," they tell you.

She does not support herself.

She works for clothes, and clothes alone.