A Speech On History Of Laundry

The location of the story plays a large role in understanding the character’s interactions.  The story opens with instructions on cleaning clothes upon a “stone heap” (Kincaid 118). In 1983 America, most households would have already had washing machines or at least a wash board and bucket rather than the older form of washing clothes at the river and utilizing stones. The next

For example, a cotton bag from salt, would be washed, bleached, and cut into wash rags. The wash rags would eventually become one of the following; a dish cloth, a wash cloth, shoe-shining cloth, window-washing cloth, to scrub or wax floors, to make bandages, make kite tails, or to tie boxes and papers together. A lot of the time, a cloths would be used for all of those.

It was eleven o'clock of a Spring night in Florida. It was Sunday. Any other night, Delia Jones would have been in bed for two hours by this time. But she was a wash-woman, and Monday morning meant a great deal to her. So she collected the soiled clothes on Saturday when she returned the clean things. Sunday night after church, she sorted them and put the white things to soak. It saved her almost a half day's start. A great hamper in the bedroom held the clothes that she brought home. It was so much neater than a number of bundles lying around.

Laundries or women that began to take on other families Landry for pay became increasingly popular during the early 1900s. Women were able to pay other women to wash their clothes for them which became a win win situations. The women paying was able to

Women’s outfits were generally custom-made well into the 1920s. at that point a number of factors came together to contribute to the success of the women’s ready-made apparel industry.” (“Ready”). The hand making of clothes were slowly coming to an end. Fewer women were spending their days at home, spending more time working, or doing other things.

I peer around my closet - a collection of seemingly materialistic things. Although cotton and polyester surround me, I see much more than that - I see cotton and polyester infused with self-expression, sewn with memories and printed with reminders of who I am. As a result, this daily trip requiring me to walk .003 miles (roughly 18 feet) turns into a daily reminder of the person I've grown to become. As baggy blue jeans and a

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It was like any other Thursday in Bennie Clark’s life, that is laundry day. Bennie Clark was walking down the hallway to the public laundry room in his little apartment complex , carrying a basket full of clothes. When he got there, he opened the stark white washing machine, and put the clothes in, along with a cup full of glistening detergent. After slamming the washer’s door shut, he began walking back towards his apartment.

The Civil War inadvertently brought ready-made clothing to us, and it is here to stay. The era of ready-to-wear clothing, though a revolution in itself, should also be viewed as a positive trend that continues to provide consumers with time-efficient and abundant choices through advancements in machinery and new distribution models. Though arguably the unforeseen outcome of a coincidence, the impacts of ready-made clothing have had huge implications on our everyday lives. Thank you for your

Providing clothes to teens may not seem like an important service project when there are so many needs in the world, but for those receiving the clothes, it can make a big difference in their lives. The receiving of new clothes could mean the difference between getting their high school diploma or having confidence to obtain their first job. While teens are often not mentioned when there is a clothing drive, this can change, with a collection drive just for 14-20 year olds in need of new school clothes, formal wear and business attire.

Many students do not feel comfortable using the washers and dryers because there are many things that could happen to their laundry like it could be stolen by other students. After using the washers and dryers on campus, I will not use them again because it was not a great experience. I know what washers and dryers are supposed to do because I do my own laundry at home, and the washers and dryers on campus do not do what they are supposed to do. Until the quality of the washers and dryers improves on campus, they will continue to be a negative aspect for students who live on campus at Georgia Southwestern State University because they do not make campus life

On Saturday, October 1st I visited the Goodwill of Champaign in order to volunteer my time to help out the community. We started off the morning learning about where certain items are in the store and meeting the store manager Diane. Then we were split up within our group and assigned to different jobs in the store: putting out clothes on the floor, hanging clothes, and working in the backroom. I was assigned to hang clothes and was working closely with the Goodwill employee Oti. She was a very nice woman and explained to me how their sorting process works so I could be successful when helping out. I found out that there are 90 hangers per “rack” and ways in which clothes are specifically hung. A skill that is important in order to work

As a recognized issue in the mid-1800s hand washing was observed to mean the difference in saving many mothers’ lives to whom just gave birth. In Europe, “childbed fever” left and average of one in four children without a mother due to the spread infection across sectors in medical centres (Western University 19). Observed in Vienna, Austria, Dr. Sammeweis ordered medical practitioners to wash their hands before assisting in labour. As a result, the mortality rate dropped to under one percent (Western University 20). Since then, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has named hand washing, “the single most important means of preventing the spread of infection” (Western University 20).

In this revealing and thoughtful look at clothing and consumerism, author Elizabeth Cline sets out to reform how we look at fashion and how we shop for clothing. She approached this topic with a series of anecdotes and statistics to back up her findings. I became curious about sustainability in fashion through reading this book.

Xpress Laundry Service is a full service laundry service designed with the college student’s budget in mind. Basically, Xpress picks up the students’ laundry from their residence hall, washes and folds the laundry using only Tide premium detergents, and drops the laundry off within 48 hours. This service is provided at the low price of just $8 per wash which is defined by the amount of laundry that the customer can fit into an Xpress Laundry Bag (about 25lbs.) Currently Xpress’ clientele is continuing to grow each week. This growth is due mostly to