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18th-century tailor

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Creator
Emily Jack
Date created
October 27, 2007
Location
Fort Dobbs, North Carolina
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This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use

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Photo of an eighteenth-century-style tailor sitting on a table and sewing at a living history event.

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At a demonstration of eighteenth-century life at Fort Dobbs, North Carolina, a tailor — a maker of men’s clothing — sits on a bench, sewing. A tailor would use a paper measuring tape to measure a man, and then adjust his clothing patterns to fit his customer. Women’s gowns were made by “mantua-makers.”