109.98.12

Uniform, Military, WWII Pants

1944 Approximate

Coast Guard SPAR Uniform Pants World War II. Material: textile, plastic and metal. Size: 26 3/4" waistband size x 27 1/4" L. inseam. Description: Uniform pants. Navy blue wool full length pants with wide pant legs, left side zipper closure and two blue waistband buttons; 1 1/2" W. waistband with four belt loops; one deep slash pocket on each side lined with black cotton; waistband labels: "Authority of U.S. Navy W.A.V.E.S" and "W.A.V.E.S."; name label stapled to second waistband label: "Dorothy Grace Hodgkins". Entire SPAR uniform is accessioned as #109.98.5-13, 17-18) and includes a cap, a garrison cap, blouse, shirts, skirt, slacks, belt and service crests.

Waseca County Military - U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, SPAR. Dorothy Hodgkins was a SPAR, a member of the women's reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1943-1945. The name "SPAR" derives from S(emper) PAR (atus) or "always ready", the motto of the U.S. Coast Guard. Hodgkins worked with public health doctors and nurses in sick bay and in the dental clinic in St. Augustine, Florida at a Coast Guard training station. Later she was located in Washington, D.C. at Coast Guard headquarters. See donor gift agreement for more biographical information on Dorothy Hodgkins Gigeay.