Beautiful Antique Red Cross Nurse Doll's Dress, Perfectly Framed thank you postcard Solid and sturdy and in

Solid and sturdy and in very good shape

It looks to me that it was blown into a form

I believe it is quite old and made of walnut

satisfyingly heavy

Beautiful Antique Red Cross Nurse Doll's Dress, Perfectly Framed thank you postcard Solid and sturdy and inThis 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