2 February 2010
at 11:49 am

‘Miss Average College Girl,’ 1941 Back in 1941, the “average college girl” spent $240.33 on clothes and spent 75 percent of her waking hours in a sweater-skirt ensemble, according to a survey in the inaugural issue of Design for Living: The Magazine for Young Moderns. Also of note, women at the University of Texas had almost as many boyfriends as they had evening dresses. » via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)

‘Miss Average College Girl,’ 1941

Back in 1941, the “average college girl” spent $240.33 on clothes and spent 75 percent of her waking hours in a sweater-skirt ensemble, according to a survey in the inaugural issue of Design for Living: The Magazine for Young Moderns. Also of note, women at the University of Texas had almost as many boyfriends as they had evening dresses.

» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)

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