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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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Content: 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? 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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By Karen Carr |
2017-08-10T17:39:24-07:00
August 10th, 2017 | Clothing, North America | 0 Comments
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