Boy! what a scene. pure melancholy. You have to feel sorry for the poor gals who have to set there all day and do that.
Ever see the shot of the ladies running the sewing machines at "Uncle Henry's" place? It looked worse than this by a mile.
I'd have to say these two poor gals would have been given their walking papers in an instant if this was one of Henry's shops!!! (Although I suspect they were told to hold still for the photograph!!!)