Purpose and Plan of the Study — This survey was addressed to the problem of the competitive position of cotton and other fibers in specific end-use markets. Market outlets for household and apparel textiles are largely determined by the actions of ultimate consumers. Information of various kinds is available at the manufacturing, converting,…

Chemist Louise Stanley (1883-1954) was a professor of home economics and department chair at the University of Missouri, 1907-1923, before moving to Washington, D.C., to become the chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics, 1923-1943. She was inducted into the National Agricultural Hall of Fame for her contributions to…

Anselmo Avila marking a fabric pattern to be cut for clothing for school, college and university athletic teams under the Eagle USA the brand produced at the Mortex textile mill in Wendell, North Carolina. In order to meet financial obligations Mortex was able to secure an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding from the United States…

Anselmo Avila marking a fabric pattern to be cut for clothing for school, college and university athletic teams under the Eagle USA the brand produced at the Mortex textile mill in Wendell, North Carolina. In order to meet financial obligations Mortex was able to secure an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding from the United States…

This research project was undertaken in order to provide measurements which could be used for improving the fit of women's garments and patterns. No scientific study of body measurements used in the construction of women's clothing has ever been reported. The measurements used have grown up in the industry, apparently chiefly by trial and error,…

American women, like men, want and deserve their own work clothes. They are tired of having to wear the family's discards, or men's too big overalls for outdoor jobs. They are tired of fussy little house dresses made for looks alone. Instead, they want clothes planned and made for the different kinds of work they do--functional work clothes that…

ALL REGULAR CANNING CLUB MEMBERS in the South, are required to make a uniform cap and apron, holder, and cup towel for use in their canning work. During 1917, 44,146 caps and aprons, 8,803 towels, 7,010 holders, 5,919 dresses, 57 sewing screens, and 6,727 miscellaneous articles were reported made by club members. These figures were more than…

The practices of home makers in regard to home sewing are obviously in process of change, although there are no data available which show conclusively the tendencies which may be developing. The subject is of such economic importance that it is forcing itself upon the attention of many different groups. Not only those industrial organizations which…

The extension clothing project was the subject of a study of 95 farm homes in Ford County, Kans.

Sewing machines were found in 95 per cent of these farm homes.

The new construction in these homes was largely limited to the making of dresses, underwear, and night clothes for women and children.

Clothing remodeling was largely confined to…

In many American homes, the fall season is the time to look at the family wardrobe and take stock for the cold weather months ahead.

But not everyone rushes out to buy new clothing. Not these days. Anyone who's recently gone out to buy a suit, a dress, a coat, or any other garment knows that ready-made clothing is costly. Nationally, ready-made…

Modern homemakers are not satisfied with clothes closets that are merely places to hang things. They want closets to be well arranged so that they help keep clothing in good condition and make it easy to get garments out or to put them away.

Ventilation is especially important in clothes closets to help keep the clothing free from odors and, in…

THE PRESENT STUDY

An initial study of migration from farm life is presented in the following pages. Attention is centered minutely upon a single representative farm community, and the story of migration over a series of years is unrolled so that one may plainly see it at work on single farm units as well as in a single community unit.…

The every day life of the bulk of the people of this country is not news. So there would be no point to any statement of country life at its best if there had not been previously so generally entertained a conception of country life that is woefully one-sided. With the popular conception in mind and a conviction it was misrepresentative, the author…

The analysis of clothing expenditures of 85 farm families of Enosburg Township, Franklin County, Vermont, for the year ending June 1, 1924, is presented in this preliminary report. This study is included in. a larger study of clothing expenditures of 2,459 farm families which is being made by the Bureau of Home Economics of the United States…

The Secretary of Agriculture, on October 1, 1913, addressed a letter to the housewives of 55.000 crop correspondents asking them to suggest ways in which the United States Department of Agriculture could render more direct service to the farm women of the United States. This inquiry was prompted by the following extract from a letter addressed to…

Clothing illustrated in this publication was developed to suggest ways of eliminating or alleviating some of the common problems of women whose homemaking duties and self- care are made difficult by physical handicaps. Many of the garments and special design features will be of interest also to able-bodied homemakers who want clothing that is…

FOREWORD

This bulletin is concerned with improvement in the use of extension teaching methods. It is intended primarily as a reference manual for inservice extension workers, prospective extension workers and graduate students in extension education.

The extension worker's job is presented as an educational undertaking. The essential steps…

With more and more women in war jobs there is an increasing demand for specially designed work clothes. Whether the job is in a factory, on a farm, or in the home, women want work outfits that are both practical and comfortable, yet inexpensive to make or buy. For some kinds of work a dress or apron serves well; for others, trousered garments are…