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TOPIC: //CHORES//
Girls learned from there mothers or older sisters. Girls were learning to sew by the time they were four. Girls would sew, cook, wash, and tend the dairy. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=1114 http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=577 Boys learned from there fathers. Boys would labor in the barn or the feilds with there brothers. Boys might be driving teams of oxen by the age of eight http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=577 At ages 6 or 7 they started working in the farms. Children prefered the easier chores such as: carrying water, feeding livestock, chopping wood, and helping in the garden. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=577
 * example 1:** Girl Chores
 * example 2:** Boy Chores
 * example 3:** chores both girls & boys did

**TOPIC: CLOTHING**
Little girls also looked to their older sisters as models of maturity and elegant fashion. Girls would also wear, long skirts and cuasul dresses If you were 17 and were going to a ball you would wear somthing similar to this: a white muslin over a white silk—it is made with short sleeves and then you could have long kid gloves maybe even a pair of elegant Cameo earrings and a pin. Toddlers would wear a white dress and pantalettes, boy toddlers would also dress in the same thing. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=856 If you were 4 or 5 you would probally wear somthing like this: pantaloons and a coat,and ruffled collar. If you were over 10 you would probally wear somthing like this:a waist-length jacket that was fashionable for older boys and young men. Your shirt has a wide, floppy collar. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=856 If you were going out for a special occasion you would probally wear this: tail coat, vest, and pantaloons. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=856 If you were going out for a special occasion you would probally wear this: fashionable, but a simble black dress, probably silk, with a ruffled and embroidered pelerine over her shoulders, fastened in the front by a gold brooch. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=856
 * example 1:** Young Girls Clothing
 * exmaple 2:** Young boy clothing
 * example 3:** Men clothing
 * example 4:** Women clothing

Clothing is much different today then it was back then. Women have to learn how to sew and then spend the rest of there time making clothes they wanted. Girls these days usaully do not wear long skirts or dresses unless it was a special occasion. Again, Today, we wear short skirts, t - shirts, and jeans. Boys today also wear t-shirts and jeans. Boys mostly only wear collared shirts again for special occasions, but somtimes you see someone walking around in a short- sleeved collared shirt. Men on special occasions wear suits. The tail coat, vest, and pantaloons were considerd the suit back then. Now they usaully wear black jackets with a bright white shirt underneath with a pair of black dress pants. Women on spacial occasions wear dress similar to dresses back then. You would probaly see a silk black dress today. Back then you had to make all your own clothes which would take a long time, when you could just go to the store and buy them. Clothing is easier today becuase today clothing is simple and we don't have to make them.

Chores are way easier today. We don't have to milk cows or make our our own butter. Our parents usaully do most of the work. We just go out and buy them. Today we have a dishwasher, so we don't have to wash dishes. We don't need to learn how to sew becuase we don't make our own clothes. We just buy them at the store. Boys don't work in the farm becuase we don't have farms. Most girls don't cook, and anyways it would be easier to cook today becuase we have stoves and ovens. We don't wash our clothes by hands anymore beucase we have washing machines. Still today kids want to do the easier jobs. But we don't carry water or chop wood. Some of our easier jobs would be making our bed our sweeping the floor. Today it is way easier.