Lowe High School - Towers Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book 53 Cooking Room MILLINERY In the millinery department of the Technical Course, Miss Modern becomes acquainted with the ess¬ entials of her wardrobe. She soon finds out that her hat is one of the most important articles in her whole costume.lt will either make or mar the best and smartest look¬ ing dress. To be smart and chic, a hat does not necessarily have to be expensive. Some of the best look¬ ing hats made here at school by the girls cost less than three dollars. But, the reason for their beauty in line and colour is that in the mill¬ inery room line and colour are taught constantly, and Miss Mod¬ ern soon learns which colours are best for her and just what style of hat she can wear. After taking the millinery course one can find work in many varied places of business. A girl need not 1 e just a maker of hats. She car become a millinery teacher or go into business herself. No two grad¬ uates of the Technical Course have similar positions. One has become a millinery teacher, , one works as a maker and trimmer of hats, one does parlour millinery at home, and lastly, the writer of this article does millinery as a side-line, but has returned to school to further her knowledge for a good business training. NELLIE OSTROWSKI -o- CLOTHING COURSE One of the Technical School’s main departments is that known as the Household Arts Department, an important section of which is the Clothing Course. This course teaches: 1. Principles of sewing. 2. How to apply these principles. 3. Choice of materials. 4. Choice of suitable clothing. 5. Care of clothing. One of the insistent demands of the modern world is that a woman be smartly dressed. She must be

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The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book 52 HOUSEHOLD ARTS DEPT. The girl who graduates from the Household Arts Department of this school will make an ideal wife and will also have a trade to work at in the time between her graduation and her marriage. Upon graduation, she is able to command a good salary in fields that are not overcrowded. If she specialized in Millinery or Dress¬ making in her third year, she will be in a position to open up a smart Millinery or Dressmaking estab¬ lishment of her own after she has worked at the trade for a short time. If she preferred the Foods department, after very little pract¬ ice she can open an attractive Tea Room. These are three of the pos¬ itions that she might work for. Are they not worth while? She understands how to dress appropriately and attractively, as well as economically—not cheaply —but at a real saving, because she can make and design her own clo¬ thing to suit her station, her type, and the occasion. In her home, she and her family will be happy. Because of her work in Art, she will be able to drape a curtain here and place a cushion there that will make her house into a home. In her Foods classes, she learned how to keep her husband from con¬ tracting that dread disease indig¬ estion, and her children will never have blood poisoning because in her Nursing -classes she has learned how to avoid it. She and her child¬ ren will always be stylishly dress¬ ed and will always wear the “Right Hat on the Right Occasion”. Lucky is the man who gets the Household Arts Department Grad¬ uate!

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54 The Windsor-WalkervUle Technical School Year Book Art Room well-dressed to take her place in the busy industrial world of today, feel at ease, and so succeed. When a girl launches out in the world as a worker, it is often nec¬ essary that she make her own clothes. This she is unable to do if she has not the knowledge of how to set about to do it. By taking a Clothing Course at the Technical School, she acquires this know¬ ledge. Not only must she have the knowledge of how to create, but she must have learned how to choose appropriate clothing for dif¬ ferent occasions, and how to suit her colouring and figure. A girl who is taught to shop in¬ telligently and economically and with an understanding of values, becomes a person of common sense and thrifty habits. The Clothing Course does not stop here; it goes a little further. A girl is taught how to care for the clothes she makes or buys, and other articles of her wardrobe, such as shoes, stockings, coats, etc. Personal cleanliness and grooming are also given due consideration. Thus the Clothing Course is a very complete one of its kind, and girls taking this course have an ex¬ cellent opportunity to become thrif¬ ty Canadian citizens in the true sense of the word. MAUDE HOLDING. -o- — ART — I recently paid a visit to the Art Room of the Windsor-Walkerville Technical School. What a busy place it is! All one hears is the scratching of pencils on paper and the occasional rubbing of an eraser. The room provides a cheerful view and makes an ideal studio. Cunning little cuts adorn the many bulletin boards and some of the pu- oils’ drawings grace the back wall. This display includes samples o f work from First, Second and Third .Year classes.