Remember dressing up as a Pilgrim for your grade school Thanksgiving play? Well, guess what? If your teacher really wanted you to look authentic, she wouldn’t have made you wear that goofy black and white outfit (set off by those ridiculously oversized buckles).
The truth is, those early colonists wore black and white only on Sundays and formal occasions. Pilgrim women typically wore red, green, brown, blue, violet, and gray. Men wore beige, green, and brown. And those buckles? They didn’t become popular until later in the century.
(Source: History.com)
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