Title: American clothing - 1700s - Quatr.us Study Guides
Headings: American clothing – 1700s
American clothing – 1700s
Learn by doing: what are the clothes in your closet made of?
More American Clothing – the 1800s
Bibliography and further reading about American clothing:
North American clothing before 1500 AD
North American Economy
American History
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American clothing – 1700s
American clothing – 1700s
Hendrick, an Iroquois leader, in 1740 AD
By the 1700s, clothing styles had changed more. There were not so many deer on the East Coast anymore, so deerskin was harder to get. Most people gave up wearing deerskin and started to wear wool and linen clothing. Because Christian settlers on the East Coast thought it was wrong to show your skin or hair, Iroquois and Cherokee women on the East Coast started to wear clothes more of the time. Like European women, they covered their hair with scarves, and wore their skirts longer, down to their ankles. Joseph Badger – Faith Savage Waldo, 1750
Men who wanted to seem stylish began to dress more like European men. Over their linen shirts, they wore wool breeches (shorts) and linen stockings (knee socks), and wool jackets or waistcoats. In the very end of the 1700s, in 1793, Eli Whitney invented a new kind of cotton gin that let people grow a lot more cotton much cheaper than before, and quickly both Native American people and settlers began to wear cotton clothing instead of the more expensive linen and wool. Learn by doing: what are the clothes in your closet made of?