American women protest over longer skirts . Members of the Women's Organisation to War Styles ( WOWS ) picket a dress shop in protest to longer skirts and padded hips in Berkeley , California . They are wives of G I students at the University of California left to right Jackie Bouser , Wanda Ames , Dorothy Inman , Terry Ligon , Ruth Van Arkel , Carrol Reynolds and Barbara Carmichael 27 August 1947