The Fashionable Thing to Do
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Cotton Council
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content: National Cotton Council of America (NCC) Photographs, Film, and Publications
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content: National Cotton Council of America (NCC) Photographs, Film, and Publications / Series 4: Films
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content: 1 Motion picture film (color; composite optical soundtrack; print, 16mm; 420 feet; total running time: 11 minutes, 30 seconds)
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content: circa 1970
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 1177.90
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Motion picture films
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content: The following description is taken from a National Cotton Council brochure: "Sew it yourself. That's what some 43 million fashion-minded females across the country are doing . . . and it's not just grandmothers who are sewing either. About 85% of all teen-age girls now make their own clothes. What's behind the move to the sewing machine? Follow along with one young woman as she decides to start making her own … and see what she learns about all the new things that now make it so much easier to sew. You'll discover along with her some of the reasons why sewing has changed from a 'square' activity to the fashionable thing to do." 

End credit: "Produced by Cotton Producers Institute with special thanks to The Singer Company and Thrashers Fabric Shops"