|
Most everyone is dressed in a 1760`s style clothing [mostly hand-made] with the long hunting shirts and deer skin leggings. The vest, that some are wearing, is called a waistcoat. It was a more formal thing to wear over your plain shirt. Normally, a waistcoat was worn when one had visitors or if you went to town. Hats ranged from plain hats to tri-corn hats, silk scarves, a Canadian cap [on Steve Jouette], or nothing at all. Everyone had just one wool blanket and a few had a piece of canvas. We cooked in very small tin or copper pots and small tin cups. Most of the guns were French smooth bore muskets like Eric and Russell carried [in LOTM]... |