Beautiful Antique Red Cross Nurse Doll's Dress, Perfectly Framed thank you postcard lined up in a wonderfully

lined up in a wonderfully gnarly row and giving it some real bite

and held in by the very thinnest of walls

including for the fact that I really can't pin them down

and 2 5/8"across at the base

Beautiful Antique Red Cross Nurse Doll's Dress, Perfectly Framed thank you postcard lined up in a wonderfullyThis one moves me on all sorts of levels, including for the dress's transformation into a potent uniform via the single red cross hand stitched onto the white band on one sleeve, and for the staining and fading to the beautiful blue of the linen, making it feel as if if its wearer did plenty of caretaking. And then its careful laying out onto a quilted ground for framing, with the left sleeve folded under as if in perpetual motion. Early 1900s WWI era