Title: Colonial America for Kids: Women's Clothing
Headings: Colonial America
Colonial America
Women's Clothing

Content: It was sometimes called a "bonnet." Interesting Facts about Women's Clothing in Colonial Times
Girls began to dress like women at the age of 5 or 6 years old. Some wealthy women wore very delicate shoes with paper soles. Women often wore jewelry including pearl necklaces, silver hairpins, and gold earrings. Puritan and Quaker women, however, were not allowed to wear jewelry. The fan was an important accessory for wealthy colonial women. Fans were made from paper, silk, lace, bamboo, ivory, and wood. Fashionable women sometimes wore "hoop" skirts that had a hard framework build into the petticoat to help give the gown a bell shape. Activities
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