For American women in the 1920s, the right to wear lipstick became a cultural battlefield
At the beginning of the 1921 school year, Pearl Pugsley of Knobel, Ark., was sent home from high school for wearing lipstick and powder. Not only were her parents understanding about her adolescent infraction, they retained a lawyer on her behalf, arguing that their daughter’s civil rights had been violated.
America’s lipstick war is little remembered today, but a century ago, the debate over whether respectable women could wear lipstick had important political and social implications. For Pearl herself, wearing lipstick was about more than vanity—there was a principle at stake. “It wasn’t a desire to create trouble when the suit was filed,” she explained at the time.
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