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Retail

Retail — prescribed dress within commerce and service.

First Names Only

The name badge is a small object with a large asymmetry in it: the wearer’s first name is legible to a stranger who gives nothing back.

A modern employee name badge, a waitress uniform, and a 1965 conference badge

Collection: Commerce and Service

Every type of commerce and service in one place — 7 chapters, Kitchen and culinary, Front of house, Hotel and accommodation and the rest, with the plates and an inventory to download.

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Every Research post and every Essay, free to read.

All Research posts — one uniform at a time, in archive photographs
All Essays — the long-form arguments
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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
Free for personal and commercial use — no attribution required
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