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A Step-Saving Kitchen: Motion Picture in Color

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A kitchen planned as an efficient workshop — where a woman's work may be done with the least walking, stooping, lifting, and stretching — is demonstrated in this motion picture. It is a two-reel film, in color, with a narration sound track.

This U-shaped kitchen was designed by housing and household equipment specialists of the Bureau of Human…

Dresses and Aprons for Work in the Home

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A well-designed, well-made house dress can give a real lift to homemaking jobs. A poorly designed dress or apron, on the other hand — one that restricts when you reach or bend, that twists or gets in your way as you stoop or climb — can be as fatiguing as a poorly planned kitchen.

On the following pages are dresses and aprons designed by the…

Dresses and Aprons for Work in the Home

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If you are a homemaker doing your own work, then, like the rest of the busy world of workers, you want clothing suited to your job. A dress that restricts when you reach or bend, that twists or gets in your way when you stoop or climb may be as fatiguing as a poorly planned kitchen. Yet there are homemakers who give less attention to the selection…