But for the middle class it was different.
New england colonies clothing.
The quakers and the puritans believed that everything should be plain.
Men in the middle class wore very simple clothing.
For example wealthy women wore satin gowns.
Infants wore long gowns and a biggins.
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The type of clothing represented your station of life.
Clothing was an essential part in the new england colonies.
The revolution proved to be more than a successful rebellion against the armed forces of england.
Back in england women s clothing at the time was very fancy with gowns made out of velvets and satins decorated with lace and frills and buttons and bows.
It was the first campaign of the new liberalism against the old order of things.
The forerunner of a greater revolution in humane thought and practice that was to sweep through the world.
Clothing in the new england colonies.
In 1651 both the magistrates and deputies of massachusetts agreed on the following piece of legislation which included the following.
The revolution and the new republic 1775 1800.
Young boys wore doublets before graduating to breeches and.
Sumptuary laws like these weren t unique to that time or place.
The clothing brought by the plymouth colonists was typical of that worn by all english yeomen in the early 17th century.
Men s clothing was also fancy with buckles and buttons and even fans.
New england s puritan colonies had many laws restricting how citizens particularly women could dress.
Colonial clothing sumptuary laws introduced in america when the new england colonies were becoming established the puritans introduced sumptuary laws specifying rules for colonial clothing in america.