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made house dresses and summer wash dresses than made silk dressea 

 and wool dresses. As many made silk dresses as made wool dresses, 

 except ill the rural comnumities and in the case of those who did not 

 report the size of the comiiuinity. 



In the classification by income groups the lai^est percentages of 

 women makiii.2; most of the j;arments are in the S2,000 to S2,999 group, 

 the only exception being tliose of the women making house dresses, 

 nightgowns, bloomers, coats, and aprons. The highest percentage 

 making the first three of these garments is in the "Under SI, 000" 

 group. Apparently size of family is not an influencing factor in this 

 grouping. However, Table 5 shows that as the size of family increases 

 a larger percentage of women made more kinds of garments. There- 

 fore, if the size of family were a constant factor hi Table 2, the per- 

 centages in the higher income groups might tend to be even lower. 

 The data in Table 2 show that in general a larger percentage of those 

 in the lowest income group than those in the highest income group 

 made the garments. 



The percentage of women making a certain number of the garments 

 named are given in Table 3, which is based on the 1,981 reports used 

 for Tables 1 and 2. 



Table 3. — Proportion of women, classified by size of community and by income 

 groups, making garments for women, for girls over I4 years of age, and for children 



The largest percentage of women making garments for women and 

 girls made 11 to 15 kinds, and over one-third made G to 10 kinds. In 

 other words over 75 per cent of the women were making G or more 

 kmds of gannents. The largest percentage making children's gar- 

 ments made 5 to 8 kinds, while the percentages making 1 to 4 kinds 

 and those making 9 to 12 kinds are practically cUjual. Approxhnatelv 

 half of the fnmilies had no children under 15 years of age, which 

 probably accounts for the small percentages of women maklug chil- 



