Women's US Army Service shirt worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Green US Army Nurse's dress uniform blouse with shoulder boards and neck tie worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown. The short-sleeved blouse (a) is made from pale green cotton/polyester fabric and is shaped with bust darts at the front and darts at the back near the side seams. It closes down the center front with six (6) pearlized plastic buttons, the topmost at the neck approximately five inches above the rest of the buttons. The cuffs of the sleeves are hemmed using clear fishing line. The blouse has a pointed collar and a shoulder strap is sewn on each shoulder that attaches near the collar with a single pearlized plastic button. A small square of Velcro is sewn under the collar by the points of the shoulder straps for affixing the neck tie (d) to the blouse. The blouse is not lined.

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