Tag: WW1
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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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Armistice Centenary
This Sunday is the centenary of the Armistice of 1918, marking the end of World War I. On the November 1918 Delineator cover shown above, two women wear military uniforms that could be sewn from a Butterick pattern. (Also pictured in the late Joy Emery’s book. Look inside the issue here.) Click the images below…
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