PRESENT TRENDS IN HOME SEWING 



dren's garments. However, many of the women made garments for 

 children when there were no children in the family. 



As the size of the community increases the percentaf!:e of women 

 making from 1 to 5 kinds of garments for women and lor girls over 



14 years of age increases. Tlie largest percentages of women making 

 the most different kinds of garments for women and girls were ui 

 the rural districts and the small towns. The size of the community 

 seems to have little or no effect on the percentage making from 6 to 

 10 kinds of garments but causes the greatest variation in the groups 

 making 1 to 5 kinds. 



In the classihcation by income the percentage of women making 

 1 to 5 kinds of garments for women and for girls over 14 years old 

 increases with the hicome. Approximately half of the women in the 

 SI, 000 to $1,999 and the $2,000 to S2,999 groups made 11 to 15 kinds. 

 Throughout all the income groups there was least variation in the 

 percentages making 6 to 10 kinds. 



In all groups the percentage of women making children's clothes 

 decreases as the size of the community increases. Classified by in- 

 come groups the number answering in most cases is too small to afford 

 any definite comparisons. 



in Table 4 is given the percentage of women having children under 



15 years of age and younger who made the children's garments named 

 iji the questionnaire. 



Tarle 4. — Proportion of women making garments for children under 15 years of 

 age, classified by size of commimily and by income groups, and based on the nmnber 

 of families having children under 15 years of age 



From the summary it will be noted that a larger' percentage of 

 women made night garments than madd any other garment. It is 

 also shown ihat 42 per cent inadc coats iind 25 |)('r ccnl iiuuie hats 

 for their children. In this group a nuicii iiighcr {XTccntago (19.3) 

 of the women than in Table 2 (S.9) failed to answer the question. 



