The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-05-20
Fashions OFrE OLDEN TIME.
How Our Grnndfash"rs Dressed Yhc
Sparkling Our Grnrtlmotl,ers.

Fashions OF rE OLDEN TIME.
, How Our Grnndshsh"rs Dressed when
Sparkling Our GraIidmotl,ers.
Rock CREEK, May l5.-Betwccn the
years Of 1910 and 1916 Gmcn and women
were principally clad in habiliments of
their own manufacture. The spinning
wheel and hand loom were only used,
except by few, for clothing. Some
Of the fabrics were smooth and regular
in texture, durable and pretty. Tho
cotton and wool were dyed with bark, ,
leaves or flowers gathered from tho
forest, together with indigo, coppcras,
etc. Knco brccchcs with buckles,
long vests with largo pockets, and
long tail coats were worn before 1915.
Fair top boots, rs they were called,
reaching nearly to the knee, were
used about this time by the wealthy.
Bandy leg fellows did not look well
in knee brccchcs or in Fair top boots.
But they presented a moro ludicrous
figure i'll "stockinct" pants fitting skin
tight, which followed. From 1876 to
1918, dress coats (no frocks them of
broadcloth, cut with very short waists
and long and narrow skirts and gilt
buttons, with Mnrscillcs vests,
were worn. Green and blue bomba-
zctt and gingham coats and nankccn
pants were used for summer wear
Boots worn outside with black silk
tasscl suspended from the top in front
and low Quartcrcd, narrow shoes and
pumps were worn. White and drab
hats with broad brims were used.
Rufllcd shirts with standing collars
were worn from 1910 to 1925. Ladies
wore their dresses with very short
waists and with short sleeves, and
Ion" silk gloves, silk and lcghorn bon
nets Ono hats thcD, the former with
wide brims. the latter projecting for
ward SO far that they secluded side
view Of the face. Tuscans were worn
afterwards in the same manner. After
wards the sleeves were worn quite
ltrgc. Ribbons were used on bonnels,
but no flowers up TO 1880, and but
little jcwclry, except ear and finger
rings. Black and figured silks, BON.
baZctts, afterwards bombnzincs, in
winter and summer. also prints, white
muslins and ginghams in summer
were used with low kid and scalskin
and morocco shoes. Not more Than
six yards Of any fabric for small, and
eight yards for large, ladies were used
up to 1880 for a dress. Low DrunclIas
were used about this timc-no gatcrs
then. Magazines OF fashion were not
taken here. No miIincrs or mantua
makers nearer than Charleston, |
think, up to lS30. | was a strict OBJ
server OF tho fashions and country
merchant and farmer from 1927 to
1910, and write knowingly. Enough
of this. ! rccollrrt in 1921, cotton
sproutcd in the fields from warm rains
in September. 1t was considered
worthless and not gathered, only by Il
few planters in February and March
following, when The price had adj
vanccd from ten cents per pound in
Dcccmbc" 10 twenty cents, and in
May to twenty-five and thirty cents.
This dogtnil, as it was called, sold at
twenty to twenty-five cents per pound.
During the Legislative session Of
December ~ the famous States Rights
Resolutions, called Judge Smiths
Resolutions, were adopted by our Leg
islaturc, which was the opening wedge
to Notification. The winter of 1889
was SO warm that most of the pork
became spoiled, and cotton and to-
bacco stalks put out shoots and grew
from tho previous years growth, the
year '29-a good crop year. | will
close yc oldcn times now, and if |
write any more, will give you some
thing about what we ought do, all of
us here in South Carolina, in the flu
turrc, that is-if know. w. T..