members of the family of the woman doing the sewing, but also a better social life for her. This invitation to ‘Come Meet With Your Friends’ (and take sewing lessons) is from a 1930s advertisement (D’Arcy Collection, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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members of the family of the woman doing the sewing, but also a better social life for her. This invitation to ‘Come Meet With Your Friends’ (and take sewing lessons) is from a 1930s advertisement (D’Arcy Collection, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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Baron, Ava and Susan E.Klepp. 1984. ‘If I didn’t have my sewing machine…: women and sewing machine technology.’ In Joan Jensen and Sue Davison, eds. A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike: Women Needleworkers in America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 20-59.