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Exploratory Studies of Measuring Money Savings and Time Costs of Homemade Clothing

This report presents some of the problems encountered in recent research concerned with one aspect of home production- -the economy of home sewing. A summary of the findings on the time and money costs of making garments at home is included. Information on these costs was reported in somewhat more detail in Rural Family Living, April 1956 and…

Apron Strings and Kitchen Sinks

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Exploratory Studies of Measuring Money Savings and Time Costs of Homemade Clothing