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

Websites:

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

• Clothing in the Colonies

• What to Wear?

• Shopping For a New Gown in the Eighteenth Century

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

Shoemaker/Cobbler: a person who made and repaired shoes 

• • Mr. Nussbaum: Cobbler

  • Colonial Williamsburg: Historic Trades & Skills (select Apparel Trades)

Hatter/Milliner: a person who makes and sells hats

• • Hatter

  • Mr. Nussbaum Milliner 

  • Colonial Williamsburg: Historic Trades & Skills (select Apparel Trades)

Tailor: a person who makes clothes

• • Colonial Williamsburg: Historic Trades & Skills (select Apparel Trades)

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

• • Colonial Williamsburg: Historic Trades & Skills (select Apparel Trades)

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. Nussbaum: Wigmaker

  • Colonial Williamsburg: Historic Trades & Skills (select Apparel Trades)