Makers & Masks: Covid-19 in Fashion, Culture, & Safety
This guide examines the phenomenon of fashion businesses and individual makers responding in days and weeks to address the dramatic shortage of personal protective equipment for frontline medical responders during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis
This was one of the first patterns to be released with an official institutional blessing. Published on March 20 by the Deaconess Hospital in Evanston, Indiana, it was immediately embraced by hospitals and tailors alike:
A costumer posted this series of tips to streamline the original Deaconess pattern and make it faster to produce in quantity. Courtesy of Rae Bradbury-Enslin.
