Business Planning – Kalon Women January-March 2014 Issue

In 1825 (with a newborn), upon her husband’s death, Rebecca Webb Lukens took over the management of the almost bankrupt Brandywine Iron Works in what is now Coatesville, Pennsylvania. This was the first American company to make a boiler plate and hull plates for steam-powered ships and locomotives; it thereby played a prominent role in the industrial and transportation revolutions of the 19th century.

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A Little Fashion History – Kalon Women October-December 2013 Issue

AH – fashion choices – what a quandary! Short skirts, knee -length skirts, spanx, camisoles, scarfs, sleeveless, with sleeves, jackets, no jacket, flats, pumps, 4-inch heels and more! Women in the 21st century have the luxury of dealing with all of these fashion decisions. for many years, fashion was much more proscribed and, for middle -class and upper-class women, included the dreaded corsets! For this issue we discuss some the the significant milestones and contributors to the evolution of women’s clothing and clothing design from the middle 1800s through the end of the 20th century.

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