Nurses', Women's Clothing - WW1

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Open Drawers are drawers (underwear) where the backs and front of the legs are not joined together.

Open Drawers. -- Girls generally began to wear open drawers when they were about nine or ten years old. Open drawers were not cut down at the hips, and the band was made all in one piece of the material. The backs and fronts of the legs were not joined together, but hemmed separately, or lined with false hems. The fronts, in children's sizes, were seamed together for about 2 inches, in women's sizes a little more. A button and buttonhole were placed at the ends of the bands, or two tape strings. The legs could be constructed as for closed drawers, i.e. as knickerbockers with bands, or they could be made up with a deep hem, and narrow tucks above. The drawers were gathered or pleated into the bands at the waist and legs. Women's drawers were very seldom made up as closed, but nearly always as open.