Dressing with Etiquette (Part III): The Housewife

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Our third look at dressing with etiquette (circa 1918) focuses on the counter-part to the women who work hard at business-- the women who work hard at home:

 The housewife needs, in her choice of morning garments, the same effectiveness as the business woman, for she must also work with real efficiency; but, in addition, she needs to give the impression of home-like abandon, as well as beauty and grace, which shall appear restful.