Johnston County Extension Homemakers, 4-H'ers in Dress Parade, September 1938

By Jane McKimmon, N.C. State University: Pleasing and interesting are the lovely designs for costumes and the good taste shown in color selection shown by many North Carolina women and girls. Recently Johnston County staged a dress parade in Smithfield and farm women and girls strolled across the grass in tailored sport dresses, house dresses, and colorful prints for the afternoon. Two graceful young women in long cotton evening dress could not have been more alluring had they been fashioned in an exclusive New York house. The most impressive thing in these reviews was the fact that every person wore her own dress. She was not a model selected for her grace and ability to show off the good points, but an every day farm woman who expected to wear her dress in the house or at church, and the girl who would use her sport dress when she was out with other young folks in the neighborhood. From The Woman’s Touch: What Club Work Means to North Carolina Farm Women, in the Carolina Co-Operator, September 1938