Military Uniforms and Processes

My cataloging began with Military uniforms. The uniforms were some what unorganized as far as pieces that were donated together. I first had to pick a process of cataloging, which entailed more tags and my own IC # that I could identify. This was because there are other numbers and descriptions on the uniforms/clothing from years before. My job was to decipher whether the uniforms were from a certain war or just those who served in between. Many of the uniforms were from world war one and even some from the Spanish American war.

I found a very interesting peach type shirt that contained a very old sewing kit inside of it. It was just another small treasure that makes it neat to look through the clothing, even military uniforms that I never would have put on the top of my interesting clothing list.

The process is working well with cataloging and keeping a separate description with each piece I number. This descriptions contains the year, type of material, wearer, and donor. I include any other information that might help us to link the unknown pieces to other files later down the road. I have placed the military clothing in their own section at the beginning of the storage area. Some are put aside to make room for the next part of the clothing, which is women's clothing (black) now. I will be trying to organize by color and possibly style/year once mostly everything is numbered and organized better. I am moving through the clothing at a good pace and I am excited to see the next process come to life.

My only struggle is with the types of fabric. I am going to read up on different fabrics to get better at identifying them. Women's clothing will be a challenge in this respect because a lot of them are a mixture of many different fabrics. It is very interesting to have a puzzle to fit together and I am definitely up to the challenge.