Historical Ideas Thanksgiving

The Reality Thanksgiving Revolution at IdeasThanksgiving.com is all about cultural awareness. For this reason it is important to convey the sentiments of American Indians concerning the use of their cultural attire as “play costumes.” Euro-centric Americans are asked to understand the need for respect and cross-cultural diplomacy when wearing American Indian costumes, especially in public. [...]

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Posted September 12, 2009 by Admin under Costumes

See It Here! $6.99 IdeasThanksgiving.com has compiled an excellent, budget-friendly how-to guide for beginning sewing and authentic historical costuming. The sewing section of the guide walks you through mini lessons covering all the sewing techniques you’ll need for modern machine sewing, plus the basic hand stitches you’ll need if you decide to go all out [...]

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Posted September 3, 2009 by Admin under Costumes

See It Here! $9.99 The English clothing I have made for myself and my husband are period authentic, but not class authentic.  The Mayflower Pilgrims were all middle class citizens, and my attire is lower class, with an upper class hairstyle and pearl drop earrings.  My husband’s attire is middle class with upper class boots [...]

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Posted September 3, 2009 by Admin under Costumes

The good news is that you don’t have to wear those horribly unattractive black and white Puritan clothes for Thanksgiving anymore (hurray!). The black-and-white stereotype actually got its start back in the early 1800’s when the lost manuscript, Of Plimoth Plantation resurfaced in England (it was lost to the British during the American Revolution). When [...]

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Posted September 3, 2009 by Admin under Costumes