Comments on: “What Shall I Do?”: Paid Employment for Mormon Girls, 1927 — part 5: Domestic Art and Science http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/02/03/%e2%80%9cwhat-shall-i-do%e2%80%9d-paid-employment-for-mormon-girls-1927-part-5-domestic-art-and-science/ Where our past is never very long ago Wed, 22 May 2013 17:18:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: mahana http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/02/03/%e2%80%9cwhat-shall-i-do%e2%80%9d-paid-employment-for-mormon-girls-1927-part-5-domestic-art-and-science/comment-page-1/#comment-46500 mahana Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:00:21 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10357#comment-46500 “Dress designing! Doesn’t that give you a thrill?”

It does give me a thrill; in fact I sew so that I will be prepared in a few years to be able to sew my daughter’s dance dresses. I don’t really care for the designs of special occasion dresses coming “from the eastern cities”.

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/02/03/%e2%80%9cwhat-shall-i-do%e2%80%9d-paid-employment-for-mormon-girls-1927-part-5-domestic-art-and-science/comment-page-1/#comment-46424 Ardis E. Parshall Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:43:55 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10357#comment-46424 “Pragmatic yet encouraging” — that’s a pretty good evaluation of the entire series, isn’t it?

When I started typing this I expected it to be about “hired girls” in domestic service since household help was still very prevalent in even moderate homes in the ’20s. I was pleasantly surprised to see so many suggestions for educational, commercial and industrial work that was still considered domestic because they called on skills that were still primarily part of the household realm.

]]> By: kew http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/02/03/%e2%80%9cwhat-shall-i-do%e2%80%9d-paid-employment-for-mormon-girls-1927-part-5-domestic-art-and-science/comment-page-1/#comment-46418 kew Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:27:39 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=10357#comment-46418 I loved the tone of this installment. The author is pragmatic yet encouraging. Her perspective of the changes brought about by mass-produced goods was also very interesting to read.

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