Tag: Textiles Apparel and Merchandising
“A Fasion Show from the Boardroom and Beyond,” sponsored by Kohl’s, will give NIU students an education in how to dress in all professional settings. The event takes place from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in the Barsema Hall Auditorium. Kohl’s executives will participate in a meet-and-greet after the fashion show. Hosts for...
Exactly 105 years have passed since NIU began teaching the arts of foods and sewing. But pinpointing the birth of home economics as an academic discipline – and not just an unpaid profession for many women – opens the history books to the years of the Civil War. The Morrill Land-Grant Acts of 1862, introduced...