Blouse, c. Early 1900s
date: label: Date made
content: 1910 - 1919
notes: label: Description
content: This blouse takes the form of a shirtwaist, a separate blouse constructed like a shirt with a turn over collar, cuffs and buttons down the front, appropriate for women entering the work force. The large-scale production of shirtwaists forms produced in unsafe sweatshops resulted in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 with a loss of 146 garment workers, mostly young immigrant women. Public outcry from the fire resulted in the growth of the worker's rights movement and the development of child labor laws.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Many Voices, One Nation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0202.13
label: accession number
content: 1986.0202
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0202.13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Blouse
label: Other Terms
content: Blouse; Upper Body; Main Dress; Female