Textile Color Card-- Fall Season 1942-- United Victory Colors
date: label: date made
content: 1942
name: label: maker
content: Textile Color Card Association of the United States, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Hardcover folder of color samples by the Textile Color Card Association of the US. Cover of pinkish-orange cloth with gold printed title. 30 samples for the Fall Season, 1942--known as "United Victory Colors." The folder contains. 30 crepe weave fabric samples for dye colors approved for use for furnishing and apparel textiles for consumer goods in 1942. Color names include Allied nations: Russian Copper, Filipino Tan, etc; Military related: Commando Blue, Pursuit Grey, Bomber Grey; and Patriotic names: Hope Green, Overseas BLue, Freedom Red, Victory Gold, etc.. The text on the inside front cover reads: "As a wartime conservation measure and in the interest of National Defense, the Textile Color Card Association has established the policy of reducing the number of colors in all of its collections during the war. Furthermore, the Association will issue only colors which have been passed upon by the Association's Dyestuff Advisory Committee. Therefore, all of the colors appearing on the Fall 1942 Rayon Card have been carefully chosen, not only for their fashion significance, but in accordance with the Association's adopted policies." This card would have been prepared very shortly after the US entrance in to World War II in December, 1941.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0211.75
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0211.75
label: accession number
content: 1998.0211
objectType: label: Object Name
content: color card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: textile (samples material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, unfolded: 10 1/8 in x 24 3/8 in; 25.7175 cm x 61.9125 cm