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[poem and illustration from harper's bazaar] Ah! Beautiful girls, when you fold away
Your garments fair, do you ever think
Of women haggard and wan and gray
Who toil for the barest of meat and drink
Of women slender and young like you
Who wearily toil the long days through?
Harper's Bazaar encouraged consumers to take responsibility for the working conditions of the women who made their clothes.

Poem and illustration from "Dresses - Those Who Make and Those Who Wear Them," Harper's Bazaar, March 17, 1877

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