Fashion

Library Books: Ask your Library Media Specialist for suggestions. Your school library is full of books and eBooks that can help you with your research!

Books:

• The Scoop on Clothes, Homes, and Daily Life in Colonial America by Elizabeth Raum

• ...If You Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern

• Picture the Past: Life in a Colonial Town by Sally Senzell Isaacs

Epic! eBooks:

• A Visual Dictionary of a Colonial Community by Bobbie Kalman

• Explore Colonial America! by Verna Fisher

• Ick! Yuck! Eew!: Our Gross American History by Lois Miner Huey

• Great Colonial America Projects You Can Build Yourself by Kris Bordessa

Websites:

• Ducksters: Men's Clothing or Women's Clothing

• Clothing in the Colonies

• What to Wear?

• Colonial Williamsburg Clothing

• How Much Clothing Did an 18th Century Woman Really Own? (challenge)

Games:

• Dress Me Up: Interactive History

Cobbler: a person who made and repaired shoes

• • Mr. Nassbaum: Cobbler

  • Colonial Williamsburg

Hatter/Milliner: a person who makes and sells hats

• • Hatter

  • Mr. Nassbaum Milliner

  • Milliner and Colonial Williamsburg Video

Tailor: a person who makes clothes

• • Tailor

  • Colonial Williamsburg Video

  • The Colonial Dressmaker by Laura L. Sullivan (available on Epic!)

Weaver: a person who would weave and dye textiles to make clothing, rugs, etc.

• • Weaver

  • Colonial Williamsburg Video

Wigmaker: a person who made wigs out of human and animal air. A wigmaker may have also done people's hair or shaved men's beards.

• • Mr. Nassbaum: Wigmaker

  • Colonial Williamsburg

  • Colonial Wigmaker Video

  • The Colonial Wigmaker by Laura L. Sullivan (available on Epic!)