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Clothing in 1865-1900

During 1865-1900 Women, Men, and Children wore all kind of stuff. Women dressed differnet from men. Women wore Fancy clothes. They wore long dresses with all kind of stuff. Men wore breeches. They also sweaters. Stockings were apart of their wardrobe to. Like today we wear leather, they wore it to. To go along with their dresses they wore bonnet(hats). Girls and boys wore the same thing until the age of 5.

This clothes were made by Women and Workers in mills. These clothes were made from flax(lien), sheep wool, skin from animals.

If you walk around today you will see how clothing changed since then. Today women do not wear dresses everyday. Men and women wear the same things to. There a lot of different clothings companies. In those companies they make clothes out of all kind of material.

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Rau, Dana. __Clothing in American History__. Milwaukee, WI USA: Weekly Reader Early Learning Library, 2007.