National Museum of the U.S. Navy

This section contains imagery of the wide variety of uniforms authorized for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) during World War II. 

Other Resources:

NMUSN Women in the U.S. Navy Pamphlet

NHHC Women in the U.S. Navy Focus

Uniform Regulations, Women's Reserve, 1943

Image:  80-G-241360:   Working Uniform with Hat, August 1944.   First Graduating Class of WAVES Transport Airman School, Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Maryland.   Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.