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Fashion & Textiles

Fashion gives insight into social and cultural shifts throughout history. Cultural expressions like music, art, and fashion present themes and patterns in human behavior. The history of fashion in Virginia is not only included in the written record, but material culture provides additional access to interpreting the lives of the people who wore them.

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16,000 BCE to 1622 CE
A Land of Opportunity: Creating Virginia
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1622 to 1763
A Distant Dominion
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1763 to 1825
From British Colony to American State
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1825 to 1861
Challenge of a New Century
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1861 to 1876
Civil War and Reconstruction
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1876 to 1924
Virginia in the New South
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1924 to Present
Dynamic Dominion

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