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I'm still working on the fort pictures from this weekend so I thought I would put a picture up on another subject.
There are a lot of misinformation out there on historical clothing, in fact a friend coined the term "The John Ford Referance Library." This term covers everything you learn from watching movies and TV.
Here in Nebrassky the 4th graders study Newbrassky history. There are several 1 room schools in the area that are restored, including on at the State Fair Grounds. Every 4th grade class in the area get to go for a day. I carry some clothing for kids, boys are easy, a long sleeve cotton shirt and a pair of bib overalls, plus leather lace up shooes will put them right on. Girls can be a problem, we carry a few dresses, but many of the teachers use "Little House on the Prairie as their guide, so the folks come in looking for floor length dress for the girls. This is wrong, they went longer when the became adults. Kids wore higher length dresses.
I just go to my computor and do "schools" as a search on the Butcher Collection.
You can see the teacher has a full lenght dress, but most of the kids are knee length.
(Picture 13627 of the Butcher Collection. 1887 Eastern Custer County.)
I have had teachers in shopping and they all like the history lesson and they take the link to the collection with them for further study.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html
Note the frame school house in the era most were living in sod houses. A common thing in the area, issue bonds for a frame school and pay them off over time. That way the later settlers pay the bulk. ;D
There are a lot of misinformation out there on historical clothing, in fact a friend coined the term "The John Ford Referance Library." This term covers everything you learn from watching movies and TV.
Here in Nebrassky the 4th graders study Newbrassky history. There are several 1 room schools in the area that are restored, including on at the State Fair Grounds. Every 4th grade class in the area get to go for a day. I carry some clothing for kids, boys are easy, a long sleeve cotton shirt and a pair of bib overalls, plus leather lace up shooes will put them right on. Girls can be a problem, we carry a few dresses, but many of the teachers use "Little House on the Prairie as their guide, so the folks come in looking for floor length dress for the girls. This is wrong, they went longer when the became adults. Kids wore higher length dresses.
I just go to my computor and do "schools" as a search on the Butcher Collection.

You can see the teacher has a full lenght dress, but most of the kids are knee length.
(Picture 13627 of the Butcher Collection. 1887 Eastern Custer County.)
I have had teachers in shopping and they all like the history lesson and they take the link to the collection with them for further study.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html
Note the frame school house in the era most were living in sod houses. A common thing in the area, issue bonds for a frame school and pay them off over time. That way the later settlers pay the bulk. ;D