McKee Career and Technical High School - Yearbook (Staten Island, NY)

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GIRLS ' BASKET BALL TEAMS HOME ECONOMICS CLUB GAMMA TAU 61

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DRESSMAKING TO SUCCEED as an independent dressmaker a girl must have ability beyond that of an ordinary seamstress. She may solicit work from her neighbors and friends and thus establish a business. She must know how to do various kinds of sewing as needed, making garments to order. It is from such small shops that many couturiers of Paris have had their beginning. As the head of a successful custom shop, a woman may demand and get top prices. She has the additional advantage of pleasant social contact, of travel, usually a yearly trip to Paris and inciden tal excursions to places where fashionable women gather together with the satisfaction that always comes to the creative artist in any line of work. POPULARITY of ready-made clothes is constantly growing, and there is little likelihood that people will turn from the convenience of buying the ready-to-wear clothing of today to the home-made or custom-made ones of a century ago. Therefore, those young men and women who are consider- ing entering a trade can rest assured that this industry will continue to offer opportunities of earning a substantial living. In the vocational high schools girls and boys are being prepared to fill the need for workers in this thriving industry. In the metropolitan area over one hundred thousand persons, of whom seventy per cent are women, produce two-thirds of the nation ' s clothes. POWER MACHINE 60

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