Select one of the 10 time periods you researched for your reference journals and either a European country or a city in the United States on which to focus. Who were the people who lived in your time period? Who they were and how did the way they lived their lives influence what clothing they wore. Think about these questions as you research your time period and come up with your own questions, too. For both the affluent and the working class, what did they eat? Which meal of the day was their largest and what time of day was it eaten? Where did they live? In cities? Small towns? Countryside? Where did the family gather in their homes? How did they light their houses? Their public spaces? What did they do in the evenings? What forms of transportation were available to them? What kinds of fabrics were their clothes made from? Where were those fabrics produced and what were the fashionable designs or colors? How many layers did they wear? How did they clean their clothes? Were there any sumptuary laws limiting what people could wear? What was considered valuable in this time period and why? Create research about this time period. (for you research in this this class it is not acceptable to copy and paste information from Wikipedia or any other source without citing where your information comes from. It is both lazy and is considered plagiarism. It is possible to fail a class because of plagiarism. You must read and then interpret things in your own words. ) Include a bibliography listing your sources, you should have no less than five. Be organized but personal.
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