The new fashions sold in departmentstores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see.Theyd been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittancein terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industrythat exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly.And if that wasnt enough to keep me out of stores, there was this aswell: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propagandathe advertising industry.