Miss Helen Estabrook, clothing specialist for the Home Demonstration Division, is gratified at the splendid response given by home demonstration club women in the clothing program now being carried on under her charge. In the counties already visited, she reports approximately 100 percent attendance in Edgecombe, Craven, Cumberland, Guilford, Richmond and Robeson counties.
Two women had been elected from each club to attend the county clothing school and then to present the lessons to their home clubs. The instruction included cutting and fitting of a dress and trimming it in such a way as to become the wearer. It is the aim of these schools to make the club women familiar with the adjustments which patterns need in order that they may correctly fit the individual figure. From the correctly fitted garment each woman may then cut a plain foundation pattern. This pattern, with changes in detail, is used in making all dresses, thus saving time, labor, and expense.
On her return from a recent trip, Miss Estabrook said, “I cannot tell you how pleased I am with the way these busy women have managed to arrive for the beginning of the schools at 9 or 9:30 o’clock, though I know some came from 20 to 30 miles. Our schools were not all work and no play, for in some cases the women brought picnic lunches. In other instances, the lunches were served by the home-making classes in the schools and the noon hour became a pleasant social gathering. I have all kinds of confidence in the way these leaders are going to give the work to their clubs, and I am watching with interest to see which county will receive the blue ribbony having the largest proportion of women completing work in the local clubs.”
Extension Farm-News (S1 E9 [1925-1957], Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries. Page 4 of the May 1925 issue of Extension Farm-News
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