Confederate Family Magnetic Dress Up Doll Kit TY-001-083

The Civil War, 1861-1865, was a time for conserving, altering, and mending. Our Confederate family, Jonathan, Elizabeth, and their daughter Rose, aged nine, is shown wearing the clothing they would have worn before and during the first years of the Civil War. Southern plantation owners like Jonathan supplied the world with cotton and tobacco, and with the profits could import the best fashion from both Europe and the northern states. Many wealthy southern ladies traveled to Europe to find the latest styles or went north to New York or Boston to have copies of the latest English or French gowns made. However, most children’s clothes, all underwear, and work clothes were made at home by hand. The southern lady and her daughters had to be skilled with a needle in order to make and supervise the making of these clothes. When the war came, the women of the South had to make uniforms for the Confederate Army. Sheet 1For under garments, Jonathan wears a knitted red woolen undershirt and drawe