There was a dress code during the 1960's and on to the early 1970's. I wanted to tell my readers that all the women HAD to wear dresses and/or skirts and blouses to work almost everywhere in the U.S. Can you imagine? Women in dresses in a rocket assembly plant? There was an unwritten code that if you didn't wear a dress, you were a "loose" or ignorant woman. Everyone would have set you straight, though.
This led to some hilarious incidents at the "factory". I will tell you about it soon.
I have a dynamite video of the Apollo project in which all the men in the assembly areas and on the test stands wore yellow hard hats, white shirts and nice slacks.
Really, it looked like we all were going to a party! It was like this at every plant.
Never has parts of rockets and engine test stands been assembled and worked on with such satorial splendor. But I never saw anyone dirty.
The dust magically fell off everyone's clothes.
