With all the clips, pretty soon I won't have to see the first Captain America.

I know that there were hotel/apartments specifically for women in New York which could be pretty restrictive as to behavior on the premises. I don't think they were as particular as to dress.

In the 90s, my family stayed at a hotel in Philly with gender-segregated floors and no pants allowed for women. I don't think it was this one, but a sister.

I can see the gender segregation as something residents might prefer, but no pants allowed for women in a place where they're sleeping and relaxing, as opposed to a business attire environment? How exactly would that work, surprise inspections in the middle of the night?

No pants in the lobby or other public spaces. I guess you could wear what you want in your room, but you have to wear a skirt to get there!

Pants on women was something that raised a lot of eyebrows at the time. Katherine Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich were shocking. Peggy would have gotten dirty looks for walking around on the streets with pants. Heck, I thought she looked overcasual, just a blouse with pants and no hat (I don't remember a hat, at least).

Oh, in Peggy's day I can see women wearing pants being a herald of the downfall of civilization, but I meant the hotel in the 90s. It just seems barely a step removed from requiring people to dress up in Victorian costume.

The place was cheap, and you knew what you were getting into, so I guess that was enough.

This all reminds me of my mother's horror of middle sister wearing blue jeans to school. My sister had to hide upstairs until the bus was at the door, then run out. Early to mid-70s. My mother was a teenager during WWII.

In the '70s, when pantsuits became a thing for women, a number of businesses banned them and there were restaurants that would not allow women wearing them to be seated.

I remember my high school (Church-affiliated private school, late 1970s) tying itself in knots over the idea of allowing the girls to wear pants to school. They finally did allow it, in an attempt to prove how modern and open-minded they were (they really weren't).