Sewing ideas

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Emma Bozarth

1862

a painting of a woman kneeling down in a field

a painting of a woman in a white dress and hat standing next to a tree

Young Woman in White Beneath Flowering Branches by George Henry Boughton

A Cold Wintry Day~ George Henry Boughton

Robes d'été entre 1900 et 1914

three different types of skirts with the words make this skirt

How to Sew a Cartridge Pleated Skirt | Easy Historical Sewing

an old comic strip with two women in dresses talking to each other and one man sitting at the table

The Daily Mirror (May 1920)

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I am told not to “glamorize a woman doing what she’s expected to do.” And not to “regurgitate old stuff.” Well, here’s my answer: Through these videos I am trying to honor the women who worked and sacrificed and chose to wear this uniform. I’m trying to overturn the false narrative that these were helpless women. We are told that women couldn’t do anything as long as they were constricted by corsets mandated by the patriarchy. Well, they chose to be nurses, and they could do it in a corset a...