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Fleur De Guerre said:Why can't you get blouses cut like those any more! I'd kill for a range of long sleeved 40s blouses!
I know what you mean! Just a simple well cut blouse is SO hard to find!
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Fleur De Guerre said:Why can't you get blouses cut like those any more! I'd kill for a range of long sleeved 40s blouses!
hear, hear!Fleur De Guerre said:Why can't you get blouses cut like those any more! I'd kill for a range of long sleeved 40s blouses! Thanks for scanning these LD, they are fab.
Sigh, they would, indeed. I may or may not be planning to wear some anywayThesFlishThngs said:Wouldn't hospitals and clinics have an entirely different air if workers dressed in tailored uniforms? *sigh* My husband has amassed a ton of scrubs during his rotations (so many I told him he now needs a 'scrubbard' to store them), but I like it best when he has to dress nicely under his white coat. A more delightful look when he comes home.
bunnyb.gal said:I third that motion! I've been looking for one of these for an age. The holy grail. If anything vintage even vaguely of the type comes up on Ebay, invariably there are "issues" like underarm yellowing with them.
I was hoping Big Beautiful Barbara Brown would sell them one of these days. There's a seller on Ebay, qbiffa I believe it was, who I had emailed about it as she had some short-sleeved versions of same which seemed quite nice. She said she'd email me if at any point she decided to do them in long sleeve.
LizzieMaine said:
From the Sears Fall and Winter 1942 catalog.
Nobody that I know of today makes anything like this, but I'd love to find a pattern -- they'd be really cozy in a soft flannel.
zombi said:Sigh, they would, indeed. I may or may not be planning to wear some anyway
There is at least one woman I know of who still wears an old uniform -- white stockings and all -- but she's the only one I've ever seen in our hospital who does. And I'm fairly certain hers isn't 40's, it's more like 70's! But nursing dresses didn't really change all that much, truth be told.
She is at Baptist (As am I!!!) -- she works telemetry's night shift.ThesFlishThngs said:That's so cool; I bet she looks like nurse Dixie from "Emergency". She's not at Baptist, is she? If so, I'd have my mr. keep an eye out for her.
zombi said:Also, if I'm asking in the wrong thread point me elsewhere! But, what type of shoe did an everyday working lady wear in the 40's? Were they always heeled?
fftopic: I think we should start a revolution & bring them back.Maja said:Also love the nursing uniforms... wish I wore these instead of scrubs. Sigh.
I second that, uniforms today are so genderless/sexless.