Guidance on whether to wear a face mask varies locally. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that all Americans, healthy and sick, wear basic cloth masks in public — a ...

A woman in California sews 25 masks for a battered women's shelter. Another sews 80 for the formerly incarcerated. A third woman in Pennsylvania sews 100 masks for the Crow Creek Sioux Reservation.

Grace Jun, assistant professor of fashion at Parsons School of Design and chief executive of Open Style Lab, wrote this pattern after consulting with the New York City Mayor’s Office for People with ...