Shopping Habits of Women in Erie County What the Fashionable Women Wore in the 1920s as Determined by the Charlotte Elizabeth Battles Collection

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Cover of the fall 1997 issue of The Journal of Erie Studies.
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Shopping habits, women, Erie County, fashionable women, 1920s, the Charlotte Elizabeth Battles Collection, Charlotte Elizabeth Battles, textiles, clothing, Charlotte Elizabeth Battles Memorial Museum, 18th century

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Kelly Loell Gregory

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The Battles Collection of textiles and clothing for the summer 1997 exhibit at the Charlotte Elizabeth Battles Memorial Museum provides an insight into the shopping habits of the fashionable woman of that era. From further research we were able to determine what was available in clothing and accessories to women in Erie County at that time.

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The Journal of Erie Studies, Fall, 1997, Vol. 26, No. 2
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