book of etiquette

girls
ought to
live a certain way.
I have a book of etiquette
from 1928:

“bobbed hair does not
carry with it the privledge
of using
a comb in public.”

If I’m the woman
wearing diamonds to breakfast
I’m labeled
nouveau riche.

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