1800s clothing poor

Too many people don’t know or care about our history. This isn’t a particularly new issue, as even in 1943, The New York Times reported that college students showed “a striking ignorance of even the most elementary aspects of United States history.” Such a predicament could be explained by the fact that history can be quite a dull and dry subject to talk about if it’s not presented in an engaging or appealing way.

RJ-1700s-1800s Set 7-027

Even if you are not a fashion historian, you have likely seen images of the clothing people wore in the past. Whether you saw them online, or in your own family photos, the outer garments of indiv…