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0X1*: WOMAN’S KKMAKKAKLK SITCESSOur many women roarers will bu interested to learn vf the signal success of a western \v.«anan whv had the initiative to test a new aud somewhat unique Idea—-teaching dressmaking by eorrcs7ondonce. Only a few years ago. 3Ij5s Pearl Merwin. now supervisor of the American (’oiu-ge of Dressmaking, was modestly but successfully. ib-iitg sit eh sewing as came III her fromher friends, as a natural result of the merits her work. A college-bred woman he Ted f. she c* -a reived the idea of putting her knowledge and experience into the hands of those less favi»n*u. by crystalizing it into a series of lessens which could easily arid practicaldy le tatight by mail. Pfco com me need advertising in a small way, until the practicability of the idea was fully demonstrated. Her advertising may now be seen in all the leading magazines. She has over 2.t'l0 students ar.d graduates scattered through out the country. and the product of her pen is sought after by the dressmaking departments lt;f a number of the leading fashion magazines, whereby she is a striking example of the new woman —not. however^ of the mannish sort—who has come up out of the ranks largely by her own efforts, and that by confining her efforts wholly within the generally conceded province of feminine endeavor.Clipped from the December, 1907, issue of Human Life, published at ^Boston, Mass.
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Des Moines Iowa State Register and Farmer
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Fri, Feb 21, 1908
Page 14
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Clipped by
Constance S.
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