The Dirty Blue Shirts: Women's History and Fashion in the American Revolution

Thursday, March 27 at 6:00pm

Join us for a program presented by the Dirty Blue Shirts, a collective of living historians, scholars and artists based in Eastern Connecticut.

Underpinning the sensationalism of battle reports and broadsides in southeastern New England is the often silent steadiness of women’s work with textiles.  The choices these women made every day about fashion and fabric consumption and creation drove the course of the Revolution just as determinedly as any congress.  From the mythology of homespun to legends of midnight rides in red cloaks & calashes, the Dirty Blue Shirts share stories of the local women who waged war on multiple fronts as well as a look at what they wore as their worlds turned upside down. This program is presented by two costumed historians and includes reproduction clothing pieces and fabric samples to pass around.

Please register here: https://northkingstown-ri.whofi.com/calendar/event/1264716