Museum offers hat-making class for upcoming 1835 celebration.
Period costumes from the 1830s will be shown at the Aiken County Historical Museum at Banksia through Jan. 10.
The exhibit will demonstrate various articles of clothing typical of those worn by Aiken residents at the time that the town was officially founded by charter in 1835. The founding and history of Aiken are the focal points of the 2010 yearlong celebration recently announced by the City’s Celebrate Aiken Committee.
On display at the museum will be dresses and hats common to the times, and patterns for interested seamstresses, as well as information about the basic tenets behind the styles of that period.
The styles varied among the various classes of women, according to their means, but every woman strove to be fashionable in her own way. For instance, hats were “quite gaudy,” said Mary White, director of education at the museum, adding that women adorned their hats with feathers, flowers and other bric-a-brac.
White noted that all of the hats on exhibit are for sale, and others will soon be available for purchase at the Museum Gift Shop in the $40 range.
Also available at the museum will be handouts on how to adapt modern clothing to become 1830s-style garments and how to make and decorate an 1835-appropriate hat for Aiken residents to wear to some of the Celebrate Aiken events.
There will also be a handout listing sources for purchasing period clothing.
Those who wish to make their own hats for the upcoming 175th anniversary of Aiken celebration may attend a workshop at the museum on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Full Story…
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