The comic dispute of the trouser-suited women office workers at Yorkshire Television, which looked like becoming serio-comic if the management refused to budge, ended yesterday with a girl leaping into the air and shouting: “We’ve won.”

From now on, the girls in administration, the sober-sided side of YTV studios at Leeds, will be allowed to wear trouser suits, which the management had earlier banned. Of course, the agreement reached between YTV and the National Association of Theatrical, Television and Kine Employees, did not put it quite as baldly as that. There were faces to be saved.

So, when Mr William Bovey, a divisional organiser for NATTKE, announced the “amicable agreement,” he emphasised that the company has been anxious that high standards of dress should be maintained, and that things should not get out of hand. And the union was happy because its women members would continue to wear sensible clothing. Freedom, Mr Bovey declared, had been maintained.

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It took the management and the union more than seven hours of joint and separate meetings to achieve a declaration of each other’s positions that might more usefully have been achieved in minutes, particularly when office workers at other television studios are allowed to wear trousers.

“Formal trouser suits,” but no slacks, will now be allowed in YTV administration. Perhaps it did not need a cynic to add yesterday that, women being women, trouser suits would now go out of fashion in the YTV offices.