Research

Clothing and Dress

Thunder and Lightning: Addendum to Florence Montgomery’s Textiles in America

Clothing and Material Culture References from Memoirs of Helen Calvert Maxwell Read

“For The Heat Is Beyond Your Conception:” Men’s Summer Dress in the American South During the Long Eighteenth- Century

"kind of armour, being peculiar to America" The American Hunting Shirt

“…trimmed & ornamented with fringe:” Fringe on the Elusive American Hunting Shirt

Tailoring for an Army, Schuylkill Arsenal Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

United States Soldier’s Shirt of 1806 

United States Soldier’s Shirts of 1779

“…for making of 20 sutes of apparel: ”Clothing during the Virginia Company Period in the Chesapeake 1606-1624

John Harrower and his Clothing

Resistance Through Homespun

Beautiful or Beastly? A Curator’s Take on the Costuming of Belle and Gaston (Originally published March 2017 on the “Making History Now” Blog at Colonial Williamsburg)

David Rubins, Tailor (1884-1957)

Material Culture

“Now fitting out for a cruize…against the Enemies of America:” Terms of Agreement for the Privateer Ship Revolution

“Liberty’s Glorious Cause:” Three school girls ciphering books from Windsor, North Carolina, 1776-1781