Civil War Clothing

An interesting presentation of Civil War clothing was held at the Carroll Museum recently. The members of this Civil War re-enactment group came dressed in period clothing and even though it was primarily to show case women's clothing, the women were escorted by their husbands since that was the custom then. Quite different from today when women go just about anywhere alone. I wasn't able to stay for their entire program due to the Pelican Fest going on in L.V. but did hear some interesting tidbits of information and learned how to properly sit down with a hoop skirt on!! Did you know that the reason many chairs back then only had one "arm" was to accomodate men with their swords and women wearing hoops ?