Winter Workshop Series: 1770s Straight-bodied Coats

In this two-day workshop, examine details from surviving 1770s civilian coats, cutting, and begin assembly of your own. Practical wool coats that buttoned all the way down to the waist remained popular even as fashionable coats increasingly cut away along the front. Build one of these lined wool coats that were a mainstay of dress in New England and the rest of the American colonies going into the Revolutionary War.