Back in 1941, the “average college girl” spent $240.33 on clothes and spent 75 percent of her waking hours in a sweater-skirt ensemble, according to a survey in the inaugural issue of Design for Living: The Magazine for Young Moderns. Also of note, women at the University of Texas had almost as many boyfriends as they had evening dresses.
An expandable version of this graphic may be viewed on a New York Public Library blog entry written by Jessica Pigza, the librarian in the Rare Book Division who ran across this gem.
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