by Jill Tietjen | Jun 1, 2019 | In The News, Newsletters
Until the mid-1800s, people were not able to purchase clothing commercially or in sizes to fit them. Maternity clothing would not be commercially available until the early 1900s. Two women who contributed enormously to advances in dressmaking and clothing are Ellen Curtis Demorest and Lena Bryant. Let’s learn more about these two groundbreaking fashionistas.
Ellen Curtis Demorest is widely credited for being the first woman to create paper patterns for making clothing. She worked in a millinery shop after completing her schooling.
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by Jill Tietjen | May 1, 2019 | In The News, Kalon Women Magazine
As we are all aware, women contribute to our arts and culture in many ways. As visual artists, they have enhanced books, painted portraits of people and landscapes, and developed abstract art forms.
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by Jill Tietjen | May 1, 2019 | In The News, Newsletters
It’s springtime and for many sports fans, thoughts turn to baseball. In a previous ENewsletter, we profiled two amazing women in baseball – Effa Manley and Linda Alvarado. Effa Manley was the first woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame (2006); she managed and co-owned the Newark Eagles of the Negro Baseball League. In 1946, her team won the Negro League World Series. Linda Alvarado is the current co-owner of the Colorado Rockies. She is an inductee into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame and the National Women’s Hall of Fame. This month, we profile two other baseball pioneers – Edith Houghton and Nancy Lotsey.
Edith Houghton’s father played semiprofessional baseball and taught her to play at a young age. By age 10, she was the starting shortstop for the Philadelphia Bobbies. During the 1920’s and 1930’s, she played for the New York Bloomer Girls and the Boston team.
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by Jill Tietjen | Apr 1, 2019 | In The News, Kalon Women Magazine
Many of us recently spent an evening enjoying the 2019 – 91st Oscars. It may seem surprising that significant firsts for women are still occurring – but they are!
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by Jill Tietjen | Apr 1, 2019 | In The News, Newsletters
The National Women’s Hall of Fame announced its 2019 Inductees in early March. They include AIDS researcher Flossie Wong-Staal, who was profiled in our July 2017 ENewsletter, Jane Fonda and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Let’s discover more about Jane Fonda and Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
The winner of two Academy Awards, actress, political activist, fitness guru, writer and producer Jane Fonda received her first Oscar nomination for the movie They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
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by Jill Tietjen | Mar 1, 2019 | In The News, Kalon Women Magazine
The statement of a friend triggered the thought – what wouldn’t we have without women? We wouldn’t have iPhones, United Way, tuberculosis tests, the drug to effectively treat childhood leukemia, the Apgar score, fruits and vegetables from California, Kevlar, affordable ice cream, commercial maternity clothes, real D/3D for 3D movies, and much more.
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