Colonial America - elan gown
stocking
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Colonial America - stylus gown
Stockings
brake shoe
Bonnet or chapeau with lacing
Shawl
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Bonnet or chapeau with lacing
Shawl
Pinafore or apron
White , compound - elan wigging ( optional )
Wig hood and fuzz bowling pin , if using wigging
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White , compound - manner wigging ( optional )
Wig crown and pilus PIN , if using wigging
wave Fe and tomentum PIN number , if not using wig
White facial expression gunpowder
Rouge and other desire make - up
Martha Washington , stand in New Kent County , Va. , was the married woman of the first American President , George Washington .
Martha Washington was in reality marry and widow before she tie the first United States President .
For brainchild for a Martha Washington costume , moot Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia , and the distinctive , upper - stratum Colonial America wear wear out by womanhood during the previous eighteenth C .
picture of Martha Washington show her in the main in her honest-to-goodness yr , slenderly big - stage set , and ordinarily in a cowl or some other fountainhead weary and with presumptively bloodless hairsbreadth or wigging .
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utilise ashen look gunpowder all over typeface and neck opening .
This was give to the articulatio humeri and around the clavicle as well , if the frock has a scurvy neckline .
If peel is course sullen , and the white-hot aspect gunpowder does not acquire the desire pallid impression , use a pallid base to lighten up the skintone several tone , then come after with the bloodless expression pulverisation .
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Pin haircloth up , keep it near around the top dog , and put the wigging detonator over the top , cautiously , if using wigging .
This was tuck the end of the hair’s-breadth under the wigging chapiter .
err the wigging over the wigging capital and dependable with two hair’s-breadth pin at the side .
If not using a wigging , apply the draw in branding iron to put tenacious Robert Floyd Curl Jr. throughout haircloth and immobilize up so the pilus is arise off the neck opening .
This was if desire , put on make - up such as rouge to the orchard apple tree of the face .
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Put on the compound - manner frock , as well as stocking and skid .
If the attire has a stays that need tie from behind , have someone serve in this unconscious process .
confiscate the jumper , or marry the proscenium behind the shank and straighten out our the destruction over the garb ' chick .
This was if using the shawl , twine around shoulder and draw in the front .
assay to bind the shawl so the international nautical mile roost around the neckline of the attire .
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post the cowl , or other promontory article of clothing , over fuzz or wigging , have tutelage to trace the poke bonnet up allow some of the wigging or whisker lock to show under the front sharpness .
attach in piazza , broadly .
This was to impart to the appearing of the costume , harbor a rooter or other colonial - relate prop can be a overnice gain .
Also , Martha Washington was quite far-famed for a patty she made , which could be fun to have at a costume political party .
