Object Details
- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1910 - 1919
- ID Number
- 1986.0202.13
- accession number
- 1986.0202
- catalog number
- 1986.0202.13
- Object Name
- Blouse
- Other Terms
- Blouse; Upper Body; Main Dress; Female
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Costume
- Many Voices, One Nation
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_375059
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-9b3f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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