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Times of the dry law in America are connected with restrictions. To bring alcohol to a party or a meeting with someone, you had to come up with a rather sophisticated method. And this was due to not so much a desire to drink, as a rebellious way to express their protest to what is happening.
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If the men's companies were under the close scrutiny of the police, then the women skillfully used the situation and invented new ways of carrying alcohol, using their immunity.
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In the mid-1920s, these tricks acquired a truly enormous scale. The police had to be torn between suspicious companies. Alcohol was transported secretly, sometimes in small portions, and sometimes even in whole boxes.
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Of course, the attention of policemen was riveted on men. But women did not concede to their husbands and brothers in ingenuity. Fortunately fashion allowed to wear multi-layered skirts, dresses, raincoats, unusual accessories.
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The dry law gave birth to a new trend in fashion, and the girls began to compete in who more ingeniously hid the alcohol. At the entrances to various institutions they were not searched. How could I not take advantage of this?