It was time to plan costumes for our next history presentation.
When I saw the cover of the Jean Fritz book about Lafayette, I wanted to recreate his regimental. Wouldn’t my son look great in that?
Alas, he wasn’t interested. He wanted to design his own costume as a boy from Yorktown, emulating one of his favorite book characters we read a few years ago.
Me: Would you like to do both? We could just switch out the regimental with the waistcoat as needed?
Son: Lafayette was great, but I’m not as interested in him as you are. I’m more interested in developing my own persona as a boy from Yorktown.
Thus, no amazing Lafayette regimental for me to sew. Too bad I’m not a good enough seamstress to sew for Colonial Williamsburg.
However, as my son requested, I sewed all the parts he wanted.
He wanted navy blue for the breeches, brown for the waistcoat, and we could reuse the ruffled shirt he hated so much from the Musketeer outfit, since ruffled shirts for men were still in vogue.
Although my son asked me to take the ruffles off, we were too busy with company coming into town to see our history presentation, so that was pushed off. It didn’t happen.
Meanwhile my daughter was finally getting the colonial gown of her dreams, in pink! She had been wanting one ever since our last trip to Colonial Williamsburg to wear in the historic area.
Since we were planning a trip to Colonial Williamsburg in another month, my daughter was set.
I told my son he was set, too, if he’d like to wear his Yorktown boy costume.
No, he had no interest in that.
Epilogue
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