Founded in 1935 to create jobs for the unemployed, and build the economy as the Great Depression ravaged the US, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a government work program that was rolled out as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. This pair of pajamas, on view now in "Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore" at The New York Historical, were made in one of the many WPA sewing rooms that employed large numbers of women. Working in these sewing rooms allowed women to
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