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Emergency and rescue

Public safety without police powers. Dress designed to be found, and to survive what it is walking into.

Collection: Emergency and Rescue

Every type of emergency and rescue in one place — 4 chapters, Fire and rescue, Ambulance and paramedic, Search and rescue and the rest, with the plates and an inventory to download.

Plates from the Nametape archive of emergency and rescue

Before Flame Resistance

Wool, leather and a brass helmet. Firefighting dress before flame-resistant fibre was a bet that wool chars rather than melts, and that the helmet would take the rest.

Three nineteenth-century American leather fire helmets from different companies

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Every Research post and every Essay, free to read.

All Research posts — one uniform at a time, in archive photographs
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The complete archive for one family of uniform at a time — every subtype as a chapter, with the full plate set and an inventory to download.

All 16 Collections in full
Every uniform subtype as its own chapter
An inventory spreadsheet with holding collection, date, creator, rights and source
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