- Carol and June pose for stocking ads using Carol as the bad example with rumpled stockings and June as the good. When the advertisement is published, the caption refers to Carol as a "Dumb-Bell" and she decides to sue the stocking company.
- Carol and June are engaged by a photographer to pose for stocking ads using Carol as the "bad" example with rumpled stockings and June as the good. When the advertisement is published, the caption refers to Carol as a "Dumb-Bell" and she decides to sue the owner of the stocking company.
- June meets Carol and Grady in the park and ask him to take them for lunch, but Grady says no, he has some work to do. June puts him down for his lack of money and asks Carol when she is going to get rid of him. June then shows Carol the card of an executive named Tracey Reynolds, president of an ad agency, whom she met recently, saying he is the kind of guy Carol should look for and then suggests they get him to take them for lunch. The Reddington-Reynolds Advertising Agency has just come up with a slogan to advertise Fool Proof Hosiery - Fool Proof Hosiery for Contented Calves - when the girls arrive and ask for Mr. Reynolds. Unfortunately for the girls, June was given the card by the young man, called Breezy, sitting at the reception desk, who was trying to impress her. June is furious at the deception and flings a magazine at Breezy, which hits an executive who insists the girls leave. As they are about to leave they overhear the executive say the company is about to photograph some sandwiches. So, the girls sneak into the studio and hide behind a cardboard cutout of the couple whom the sandwiches are for and take the whole platter for lunch. The photographer takes the picture, only to have an executive ask him where the sandwiches are. Suddenly the cutout falls over, revealing the girls holding the now empty platter and they run out of the office. But, while running out, Carol stops to pull up her stockings, which gives the executive a great idea for a photo spread advertising Fool Proof Hosiery. He gets the girls back in the studio for $25 and has June, dubbed the Smart Society Girl, shot wearing perfect hosiery surrounded by interested men; he shoots Carol, dubbed a Dumb Bell, with her stockings all wrinkled around her calves, with the surrounding men turned away from her. The photos displayed side by side on billboards all over town, are a great success - for everyone but Carol, who is called a dumb bell by everyone she meets. She and June go to see her boyfriend and lawyer Grady to see what the law can do to help her. Grady says he can get her a written apology, but Carol suggests he sue the company, which has no written release from Carol enabling them to insult her, for "information" (defamation) of character. This works all too well, as Grady gets restraining orders preventing Fool Proof from shipping stockings to retail outlets. The agency schedules a meeting with Carol and offer her as much as $12,000 as compensation for lifting the restraining orders. But Carol opts for a spoken apology from the ad agency and hosiery company executives in the presence of June and Grady, along with a promise to make Grady their law firm...and gets them to have Carol and June change places in the ad, so June is now wearing the wrinkled hosiery. Later as they get out of Grady's fancy new car to look at a changed billboard, Carol asks "Who's the dumb bell now?
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