The Reorganization of Home Economics out of Existence: The Unraveling of American Fashion and Why It Matters
The purpose of creating a long-form blog post was to practice writing, revising, and writing again. Home Economics was a revolutionary science. The discipline gave women new career opportunities as professionals in higher education who changed the way we lived.
Process
The secret history of home economics was important to the core argument of the article. Research about the discipline in a historical context and analyzing the cultural impact of the disappearance in schools and loss of skills, makes the case for the unraveling of American fashion.
Tools used: Medium.com, the New York Public Library digital collections
Photograph citation: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1939). Three piece ensemble. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8abee0eb-5cc5-bba0-e040-e00a18065f0b
