Colonial Clothing and Fashion
Learn about the styles of clothing worn by people in the American colonies. Discover how garments were made and what dictated colonial fashion.
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What materials were ordinary colonial clothes made from?
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Which household device spun wool or flax fibers into thread?
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What were knee-length pants worn by colonial men and boys called?
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What did colonial women and girls typically wear?
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When clothes wore out, what did colonial families do?
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Wealthy colonists showed off their status by wearing:
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Colonial women covered their hair indoors and outdoors with cloth caps called:
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What kind of shoes did colonists wear?
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How were clothes dyed in colonial households?
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Young colonial children (boys and girls) wore dresses until age 6, then wore:
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Wealthy colonial men often wore white head coverings called:
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A artisan who made custom clothes for wealthy colonists was called a: