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This research explores the dressing patterns of two generations of women with similar educational levels, and both located in the upper Midwest, USA. Based upon a review of the theories about dressing, the expectation was that differences in patterns of dressing would arise between the two groups that differed in age and generational cohort group. This is significant in today's milieu in which sustainable best practices from fast to slow fashion are encouraged and differences in generational groups could change the approach to intervention. The total sample of 115 females included two groups, the first numbered 55 with an average age of 73 years and the second numbered 60 with an average age of 20 years. Participants responded to a survey focused on the contemporary American woman. The two groups were asked the same questions about how they desired to appear, how they strategized about their wardrobe and putting together of ensembles, and their shopping patterns. Analysis included a comparison of responses of each group. There were a few differences in patterns of dressing based upon age and generational cohort group, but the number of similarities pointed to other influences such as the similar location of the two groups. KEYWORDS women generational groups local context dressing patterns generational differences wardrobe strategies, INTRODUCTION What we wear is one of the numerous choices we make throughout our lives as we decide how we want to look. These choices are part of our patterns [...]

AFTER MY TEXAS-BORN WIFE AND I MOVED to Michigan--an eleven-hour drive in the snow, during which time itself seemed to widen and flatten with the terrain--I found myself pressed into [...]

IN DECEMBER 1892, America's ambassador to St. Petersburg wrote to an Iowa newsman regarding Russia's ongoing famine. Claiming peasant diets consisted of bread made from 'rye and straw, rye and [...]

I TEACH CLASSES IN composition, literature, and cultural studies at Nebraska Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college in the Midwest. My students are polite, earnest, and reasonably hard-working. They [...]

During economic downturns, traditional gender allocations of labor have been considered to vary more than in prosperous times. While most studies have examined the division of labor in the household or in paid employment, we examined it where both intersect, in family-owned and family-operated enterprises in the farm sector of the 1980s. This context, combining crisis conditions and the agency of economic actors, should be related to greater flexibility in labor allocations, leading to the feminization of farming. However, a contrasting perspective argues for rigidity of gender roles in farming. We use data from a twelve-state midwestern sample and a more detailed Ohio study. The results failed to support the flexibility thesis. The rigidity of production roles was further translated into different factors related to women's and men's stress., Gender divisions of labor usually are considered most malleable during periods of economic decline (Hareven 1990; Lipman-Blumen 1984). In such times, survival necessitates rationalistic allocation of labor resources, presenting openings [...]

A common theme of Hamlin Garland's realistic short stories about the late-nineteenth-century Midwest was the difference in sexual divisions of labor in immigrant and Yankee families. Educated in American schools, [...]

Byline: HARVY LIPMAN Affluent residents of five Midwestern states are about as generous as most other well-off Americans when it comes to charity, according to a new report by a [...]

Barely Understood: A Qualitative Ethnic Analysis of Midwestern Women's Opinions Regarding Nudity in Advertising. Marisa A. Ferrara, Eastern Michigan University, Anthropology Program, Ypsilanti, MI 48197; 440/255-3534 Given that visual communication [...]