How Women’s Working Fashion Evolved in the 20th Century

African American Women in the 1940s

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African American women began to receive more job options in the ’40s, too. These jobs were primarily lower paying housework jobs for white women who then had to go to factories or work away from home. Their attire was similar to other women’s and in factories everyone traditionally wore jumpsuits or the same uniforms.

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