Knitted uniforms

This knitting pattern booklet (like virtually every knitting pattern) is undated - perhaps 1955 or thereabouts.

There is brief mention in Richard Rutt 'A History of Hand Knitting' about the (UK) craze for knitting for soldiers during the Great War - a frantic attempt to be doing something and how the soldiers at the front had so many knitted items being sent to them that they would use them for cleaning guns. He writes that during WW2 there was less urgency and less mania to it all (in the UK).

See also the Paula Becker essay at Historylink.org about American Knitting during WW2.
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