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Figure 6 | Fashion and Textiles

Figure 6

From: Nelly Don’s 1916 pink gingham apron frock: an illustration of the middle-class American housewife’s shifting role from producer to consumer

Figure 6

Examples of the use of ruffles. Left: Lingerie waist dressmaking pattern, Ladies’ Home Journal, January 1912, p. 33. Middle: Bonwit Teller & Co. ready-to-wear dress, Harper’s Bazaar, May 1915, p. 49. Right: Homemade dress, Ca. 1916, courtesy of the Kansas City Museum, Kansas City, MO, 1962.91.12. Photography by Y. Whang on November 12, 2008.

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