| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
|---|
| A study of needed alterations in ready-made dresses |
1945 |
153 |
Women generally are faced with the problem of having their clothes fit properly. Whether their dresses are made at home or bought ready-made, they must fit correctly to look fashionable and to be comfortable and serviceable to the wearer. Dresses mad... |
| A comparative study of price and construction of trade name dresses in three determined price ranges |
1948 |
241 |
Every woman wants to be well dressed no matter what her age, her station in life, her financial standing, or her temperament. In order to look her best, she must be able to recognize quality of construction and style when selecting a ready-made dress... |
| A study of the economic waste of clothing among young women employed in Greensboro, N.C. |
1949 |
210 |
In the spring of 1947 at a meeting of home economists and social scientists at Teachers College, Columbia University, areas of research in textiles and clothing which are related to the social sciences were explored.1 It was felt by this group that t... |
| A study of sizing and grading in different brands of misses' dress patterns |
1950 |
389 |
The purpose of this study was to determine the amount of variation in the same size pattern and in the grading of sizes 14, 16, 18 and 20 by eight different commercial companies producing patterns in January, 1950.... |
| A study of the adequacy of clothing storage provided in thirty similar three-bedroom houses built for sale |
1957 |
160 |
For years, houses with three bedrooms have been built for sale by contractors -Kith concern for adequate family clothing storage being secondary, if considered at all, to those specifications established by the Federal Housing Administration, organiz... |
| Fashion : a reflection of an age |
1957 |
697 |
Fashion is one of the greatest influences in life, pervading every field and reaching every class. From the standpoint of costume, it is the expositor of habits, social relations, in fact, of everything pertaining to the era in which each fashion exi... |
| A hundred years with the feminine side of the frock |
1958 |
381 |
...She started with at least half of the destiny of the race in her keeping.1 Woman - as keeper of the cave, cultivator of the soil, and guardian of the child - probably became the center of the earliest civilization. The society of the patriarch, st... |