Practice Post- Kelsey Dean

I am thrilled that we our doing the microwave for our documentary topic because it, like a lot of inventions we have discussed in class, is such a common piece of technology today that I forget about the point in time where it changed everything. As a student-athlete, I am always on the go. Most of my meals are quick and need to be made ready in the midst of the chaos that is my schedule. As a result, I use the microwave constantly and in this project I think I will develop a greater appreciation for its creation. I am also curious to learn about its antecedents and the different styles and trials of the microwave that took place before the form of the microwave we use today. I am excited to see our documentary play out, because I think we could do a lot of comical things with it.

Tupperware Parties

Tupperware served as one of the first products that launched women as entrepreneurs. Women sold Tupperware at parties in the domestic space in the company of other women. Wise sold Tupperware and Earl Tupper noticed and took over the company. Tupperware allowed women to make the domestic space a place where they could profit.

Photograph of Brownie Wise leading a Tupperware party

Brownie Wise Papers, 1938-1968, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. AC0509-0000003.

Who was Brownie Wise?

While Earl Tupper was the mastermind behind the invention of tupperware, Brownie Wise was instrumental in tupperware sales. Wise, a single mom, could see how great tupperware could be to have in the household and came up with the idea of a tupperware party. Women would host tupperware parties to get their friends to see how the product worked, what they liked and didn’t like as well as provide a fun and social atmosphere. Tupperware parties were revolutionary and helped to skyrocket tupperware sales.

Jeff Rose, “Tupperware Parties Transformed the 1950s”,www.shfwire.com, 10/7/99,  http://www.shfwire.com/tupperware-parties-transformed-1950s/

 

 

Test Entry

 

“Denim.” Jeans. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Feb. 2017.

http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/jeans.htm

Megan Liberty