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Here is a group of teachers dressed in typical colonial garb standing on the steps of the Brick House Inn.
Some
garment items are rather different from today. The gentleman
on the right wearing what looks like a nightgown would, in
fact, have been quite proper wearing it in public. The
fellow on the far left is wearing clothing typical of a
working class laborer. Both gentlemen and ladies wore a long
shirt or shift next to the skin, similar to today's
underwear. The tennis shoes and sandals are not period
dress.
Ladies
wore a girdle of stiff strips of whalebone or wood called
stays, designed to make the feminine form look conical.
Women also wore a bag called a pocket used for carrying
personal items. Gentlemen would wear breeches, a waistcoat
and cravat. The upper class dressed in a manner that showed
they had to do less manual labor, therefore could afford to
wear more elegant clothing.
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