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Change to Indian fashion culture
While the Americas remained firmly under the control of Native people after the European settlement. By the 1681 European goods flooded the Americas culture, as well as Native Americans goods, such as beaver pelts flooded the European English industry of women’s hats. One of the first records of Native American integrating the European goods to compliment the way they dress, is in the portrait of Niantic-Narragansett chief Ninigret. -
Consumer Revolution creates uneven social status
During the Seventeenth Century Charles II created the Royal African Company and slaves were brought to American colonies from the southern rice plantations in Charles Town to the wharves of Boston. Extremes of rich and plain attire in women’s dress were most marked. In uneven relationship gave the British high status, the ladies dressed for British balls and dinner dances, while most women dressed as plainly as possible, wearing domestic material. -
Colonist Separtion from British Empire
Colonist separation from British Empire led woman dressed as plainly as possible, wearing material and curtailing expenses wherever possible to send help to their men who were fighting. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris freed the American colonist from the British empire. Many women, as the year 1790 approached, tended more and more to follow the masculine mode of dress. The cut jacket and coat were very fashionable. -
The Status of woman
After the revolution, three exemplary women fought for their rights. Abigail Adams from Braintree, Massachusetts. Wrote to her husband pleading for equality. Mercy Otis Warren, she published a three volume history of the Revolution, placing her in the male dominated sphere of public life and lastly Judith Sargent Murray of Massachusetts, advocated for women’s economic independence and equal education opportunities -
French influence in fashion
Between 1795 and 1797 a decided change may be noted in women's dress. Suddenly hoops and full skirts went out of fashion, With the introduction of the new style by the French, from then on, fashions changed with great rapidity, a multiplicity of styles coming in with the dawn of the nineteenth century. The new gown was made with a short bodice, accentuating the high waist-line now the fashion the narrow skirts were made of soft clinging materials.
