Tag: Red Cross
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About Time: Fashion and Duration
The PatternVault blog turns nine today! It’s been a pleasure writing about vintage fashion for you, for almost a decade. Speaking of the passage of time, this year’s major Costume Institute show, About Time: Fashion and Duration, also considers questions of style and temporality. Planned to mark the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary, the…
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Vintage Nurse’s Uniforms
As a salute to our health care workers, this post is dedicated to vintage patterns for nurse’s uniforms. 1910s During the First World War, McCall’s sold commercial patterns for war work, including nurse’s uniforms, as well as official Red Cross patterns. Few of these antique patterns seem to have survived, but the Commercial Pattern Archive…
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