Beautiful Antique Red Cross Nurse Doll's Dress, Perfectly Framed thank you postcard I always have an eye

I always have an eye out for these

and held in by the very thinnest of walls

It looks to me that it was blown into a form

Solid and sturdy and in very good shape

lending it some extra aura

Beautiful Antique Red Cross Nurse Doll's Dress, Perfectly Framed thank you postcard I always have an eyeThis 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