The Web They Wove: Women & Their Wardrobes During New England’s Revolution

Underpinning the sensationalism of battle reports & broadsides of the American Revolution is the often silent steadiness of women’s work with textiles. The choices they made every day about fashion and fabric consumption & creation drove the course of Revolution just as determinedly as any congress. As southern New England commemorates the 250 the anniversary (semiquincentennial) of the War for Independence, it is these local lives dressed in fulled wool or spun silk that continue to inspirecreativity, resilience, and empathy in us today.

This program ispresented by costumed historians and includes reproduction clothing pieces & fabric samples as well as a PowerPoint presentation with images of extant originals.

Dirty Blue Shirts provides museum-quality living history programming to New England and beyond.