The ruse worked like this: A Shifter approached a nonmember and asked if she wanted to join.
Gertrude Robinson-Smith, president of the Working Girls’ Vacation Society (a savings fund for shopgirls it eventually became the American Woman’s Association), told the Times that she learned of the organization from members who were unable to make their regular deposits - because they’d been hit up by the flapper bandits.
A secret girl gang called the “Society of Shifters” was shaking down friends and coworkers for pocket change and silk stockings Sensational tales of drinking, smoking, and otherwise misbehaving young women were all over the newspapers in 1922, but the story that appeared in The New York Times on March 23rd still had the power to shock.
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