People were willing to go to great lengths for the sake of alcohol.
During the time of prohibition in America to smuggle alcohol into a party or meeting with someone was not so much for the desire to drink, how many rebellious way to protest what is happening. And if men bootleggers were constantly under the scrutiny of the police, ladies used the situation and inventing new ways of transfer of alcohol, taking advantage of their immunity.
The woman wears a loose-fitting raincoat, under which are hidden two tin containers with alcohol, tied to her feet.
Estella Semon, left, and a female model demonstrate how to hide a bottle of rum and pass the guards during prohibition. March 18, 1931
In the middle of 1920-ies, the underground movement bootleggers bought a really huge scale. The police torn, trying to follow every suspicious male company, as well as those who were already under suspicion. Bootleggers secretly transported the alcohol from one place to another, sometimes boxes, sometimes in small portions. Alcohol brought from other countries secretly doing it in the back room of the houses and bought for fabulous sums.
Arrested in Minneapolis on April 10, 1924.
Estella Semon shows slip belt, apron, allowing you to carry bottles of alcohol past security guards. March 18, 1931.
The attention of the police was for the most part confined to the male population, but women are not inferior to their husbands and brothers in ingenuity. Besides, the fashion of the time, implying layered skirts, dresses, coats and numerous accessories, gave incredible field for manipulation. And neither the police nor the security institutions did not search women. Well, as such do not use! So prohibition in some ways has created a new trend in fashion, and girls began to compete, who is more inventive to hide the alcohol.
Flasks in the boots. Washington.
Latest fashion. Washington.
Woman demostriruet a hiding place for the Pro-execution of the jar with alcohol. CA. 1920
A woman pours his glass of alcohol from his cane. 13 Feb 1922
A woman uses a pocket book with the inscription *Four SIPS* to hide it alcohol during prohibition. 1920s
However, the absurd sooner or later comes to an end. Woman sitting on barrels of beer 1933
