1940s Girl Scouts Uniform Dress Vintage Rare Excellent Condition Size undefined

Vintage 40s Girl Scouts Uniform Dress Number 13 and 3 leaf clover patch on left shoulder. GS embroid... Show more

Vintage 40s Girl Scouts Uniform Dress Number 13 and 3 leaf clover patch on left shoulder. GS embroidered on each collar. Logo on chest. Two stars on front chest pocket. Full button front. Two button front pockets. Two button sleeves. Tag: Girl Scouts National Equipment Service, New York City, Official Uniform Chest: 17" Waist: 26" Sleeve: 25.5" Length from waist: 26" Condition: Excellent The United States didn’t become involved in World War II until after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. The first half of the 1940s saw Girl Scouts and their families planting Victory Gardens, collecting fat and scrap metal, operating bicycle courier services, making and collecting clothing, and rationing sugar, coffee, rubber, and gasoline to preserve resources for the war effort. In 1944 Girl Scouts sold calendars instead of cookies due to ingredient rations during World War II. Over the next few years, the look of Girl Scout uniforms went largely unchanged due to the low availability of materials in wartime. Junior and Senior Scouts continued to wear green dresses paired with yellow neckerchiefs. Brownies instead wore brown shirt dresses with short sleeves. Wartime restrictions on the use of metals led to the zippers in uniforms being replaced with button-fronts. In 1912, Juliette Gordon Low set out to create an organization that would give girls the opportunity to try new things they had never been exposed to before, such as camping, hiking, and forestry.