Colonial Trades: Tailor

I am the tailor.  My name means art of cutting.  I make shirts, stockings, hats, capes, and pants.  Some tailors make hunting coats, great coats, wrapping gowns, and banyans.  In the time, boys had to wear stays until they were three or four.  Most tailors didn’t sell fabric, so other people had to go get or make fabric and then give it to the tailor.  Some people put garters on  to keep their stockings up.  To make your own, you need needle, cloth, and string.  So come to my store, and I’ll make you something!

 

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