Sources to Learn More

Explore these sources to learn more about women, women’s fashion, and Cedar Crest College during the 1940’s!

1940s Fashion

https://vintagedancer.com/1940s/1940s-playsuits-rompers/

https://refashioninghistory.com/2017/05/20/wwii-cloth-and-clothing-rations-in-the-united-states-and-europe/

https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1940-1949/

http://retroways.blogspot.com/2009/05/1940s-purses-and-handbags.html

20th Century Fashion by John Peacock

https://vintagedancer.com/1940s/1940s-handbags-purses/

https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-how-christian-dior-revolutionized-fashion-70-years-ago/a-37491236

Women and the War

https://collectarc.com/Uniform%20Guide.pdf

https://twitter.com/RedCross/status/1227278168505167873/photo/1

https://ameshistory.org/content/world-war-ii-rationing-us-homefront

https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/72-14/72-14.HTM

https://history.army.mil/brochures/WAC/WAC.HTM

https://www.chicagohistory.org/exhibition/making-mainbocher/

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/take-closer-look-ration-books

https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/1102371/remembering-navy-waves-during-womens-history-month/

https://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/womens-army-corps-female-soldiers-wwii

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/rationing

https://observer-reporter.com/living/100_objects/objects-waves-uniform/article_debe51d6-c8d7-11e8-84e2-278ea5137594.html

https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/womens-army-corps-wac

The Roosevelts

http://trexlerworks.muhlenberg.edu/photoarchive/items/show/1554 

https://archive.org/details/mw1941-1942_muhl/page/n117/mode/2up?q=cedar+crest

At the Crest: A History of Cedar Crest College by Hank Nuwer

Dances and Dance Cards

https://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Dance/etiquette.htm

https://millikin.edu/staley/about-library/university-archives/online-exhibits/dance-card-days

https://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/news/shall-i-pencil-you-dance-cards-special-collections