During the Colonial period  people wore many different types of clothing.  The upper class wore fancy dresses and suits.  Some times they even wore powdered wigs. The lower class wore older clothes with patches and aprons.

This servant girl wears a scarf knotted about her head, a long checked kerchief over her shoulders and a white linen or cotton apron over her dress.  The dress, like that of most working women, is without hoops.

                    Clothings
  A Gentleman wearing a suit ornately bound with gold lace is headed for a vary formal affair. He wears a powdered wig and carries a small sword.  The whole outfit is a bit old-fashioned for it's time.  A fashion able Lady is dressed for a grand affair such as a ball. Her lofty headdress is topped with a spangled tunban mounted with ostrich  feathera.  She wears a silk gown with bows and flowers over a petticoat with a gauze. In her han she carries a fan. The mades wear a ragude dress with paches. They wear headbands sone by the mades. These upper class children are dressed for play. The boy wears a linen shirt without ruffles, buckled shoes and breeches that buckle  below the knee.  The little girl wears a simple summers dress with white
linen ruffed cuffsand a strew hat with aribbon.


The uniforms that  Revolutionary  War  soldiers wore were made of many different colors. Both armies used some of the same colors . The British army wore mainly red coats with different colors to identify the different regiments. The American soldiers wore uniforms that they made at home. They used whatever colors and cloth they  had.           

By:  Vernon, Carlee, Susanne, and Kaitlin