Uniform or dress?

[FWaters]

Hi

This is a photo of my grandmother when she was in her late 30s or early 40s.  She was born in 1900 so around the time of the Second World War.

Can anyone tell me if her outfit is a uniform?  Information about her life is sketchy at best.  My dad doesn't know much.  He was born in 1935 so I would have thought she would be home looking after him during the war, in which case her outfit is simply a dress.


Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Many thanks
Fiona

[hepburn]

It looks like a dress

[Jebber]

I agree, she is wearing a dress not a uniform.

[StanleysChesterton]

The neck looks like shiny jewellery.  She's wearing earrings.  You'd not be allowed to wear jewellery in a uniform of any sort.  Also, those buttons are decorative.

Must be a dress.

[FWaters]

Thanks so much for your responses.  I hadn't thought about the earrings but that really set me thinking.  I now suspect this photograph may have been taken on the day my grandmother married my step grandfather.  In their wedding photo she is wearing the same earrings, a hat but exactly same hairstyle and a coat and scarf.  In this photo her hair looks messed up as if she's taken a hat off which, together with the earrings, made me think it may have been taken the same day.


Thank you once again.
Fiona