One uniform at a time, taken apart in photographs from museum and library collections — how it was cut, what it was made from, and how it changed. Short notes; the pictures do the work. Free to read.
Lined in a colour that identified the school, worn outdoors over a uniform designed for indoors. The cape is the only part of Victorian nursing dress that survived into living memory.
A servant in livery wore their employer’s colours, cut from the employer’s cloth, on the employer’s account. The garment said whose you were before it said what you did.
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