Dressing with Etiquette (Part II): The Businesswoman's Attire

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In the second installment of our review of proper fashion (at least from 1918), we'll see what a business woman should strive to wear:

[T]he business woman, in business hours, dresses with that same effort after efficiency and economy of time and strength that she has put into her business to make it successful.  She is, therefore, besides being scrupulously neat, perfectly plainly and yet durably and comfortably dressed...She permits no fussing with her garments, therefore they have to be in perfect working order, as fussing takes time, and time is money.  Her hair is done neatly, and as becomingly as possible, but securely for the day. 

If, on the other hand, the business woman be a milliner, whose own artistic personality must be her best advertisement, she takes pains to dress artistically even though she wear less serviceable and more elaborate costumes.

From: The Etiquette of To-Day, Edith Ordway (1918).