Buying Respectability (2001)

How people dress has always been an important way to communicate status. Dress, fashion, and public deportment highlighted social standing in the eighteenth century. 'Buying Respectability', an Electronic Field Trip to Colonial Williamsburg, gives twenty-first century students the opportunity to explore social status in early America by investigating the eighteenth-century consumer revolution with dress and fashions from Margaret Hunter's Millinery Shop at Colonial Williamsburg.