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Let me me tell you about the different kinds of clothes we normally wear. My father doesn’t wear long pants. His pants are called breeches, which come just below the knees. We have buttons instead of zippers on our breeches. Under his breeches are woolen stockings. He wears his shirt very loose with some ruffles at his neck and cuffs. He wears a waistcoat over his shirt. He will sometimes wear a cloak over his waistcoat. At home my dad wears a tri-corner hat instead of a wig. A tri-corner hat is a hat with three corners. It doesn’t matter which shoe I put on which foot because they’re all the same. My rich friend Brian has his clothes made of silk brocade lace. My four year old brother will wear a loose dress until he becomes five or six years old.
See the Colonial Clothes Video Both my mom and dad wear wigs. Wigs are a very important part of your clothing. They come in many styles. Some of the wigs I see cost as much as a house! Our clothes are made from wool. My
mom shears the sheep first. She uses shears, which are like scissors to
cut off the wool. Then my mom has to scour the wool, which is like
cleaning it. My Grandma is the one who cards the wool. Carding is
suppose to fluff the wool. The way you card is you take a small amount
of wool and put
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Find out more about Colonial clothes!--- Expert Interview |
My
Mom’s clothes are very
beautiful but she says they are very
uncomfortable to wear. She wears a long dress, but my Aunt
Teresa wears a petticoat. My Mom only has
two sets of clothes, one set
for weekdays and one set for Sunday. She wears a corset around her
waist. It is laced around her
waist almost to the point were she can’t breath. Mrs. Morris’s ribs
were broken because her corset was so tight. My mom wears clogs
around her shoes so she doesn’t get them muddy. A pocket-hoop
farthingale makes my mom’s waist look thin and her stomach look flat.
To keep my mom’s hands warm while she traveled she
wore a muff over
them, which was a cloth wrapped around her hands. Also, when we travel
my mom wears a cloak. It covers her hair and dress, also it keeps
her warm. When my sister gets to be five or six she wears the same thing as my mom.
it between a paddle that has a bunch of little
hooks on
it then you pull one paddle across the other paddle. After this is done
we give it to our mom who spins it on our spinning