Jemma Fox

October 2016

Recreational Williamsburg Wig Maker Interpreter:

• Wigs were mostly used to show how rich you were – Recreational Williamsburg Wig Maker Interpreter
• There were tons of different wigs for different occasions – Recreational Williamsburg Wig Maker Interpreter
• The women’s wigs were meant to make them look pretty and mannerly, while the men’s wigs were supposed to make them look wise and important – Recreational Williamsburg Wig Maker Interpreter
• Wigs were more about the impression they made on other people, than how they actually looked – Recreational Williamsburg Wig Maker Interpreter
• There was something called the homespun ball where women would dress up in their homespun clothing to protest against the non importation act

Margaret MacGillivray

• Weaving is considered men’s work
• If you want to be the head of the household, you must be declared as a fem seoul
• If you have a husband, everything you do is under him 
• The four jobs that women can’t have all require going to school and learning latin. These four jobs are lawyer, doctor, government and priest
• Since Williamsburg is so small, every single thing a women does is known by all 
• When Grizzle Hay’s husband died, she turned her house into a boarding house and there weren’t judgements passed about her 
• Men couldn’t be midwives 
• The enlightenment period was when people started using more science, and that’s when men started being midwives 
• Spinning is considered women’s work 
• If you saw a gentry man doing housework, people would pass bad judgement about that man because of the social status Interpreter
• Women were also ways to show how rich you were, because richer people wanted women who knew how to sew and cook, even though they wouldn’t be doing that work, the slaves would
• When Peyton Randolph married Elizabeth Harrison, it made him look a lot better – Williamsburg Weaver Interpreter, October 2016