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Originally Posted by Fbone
And it got worse. Very inaccurate historical fiction. Women did not wear hoop skirts and bonnets in 1775 Georgia colony. They didn't say "ok." Orphans were not treated so well either. The orphanage was run by Methodist nuns who kept boys and girls in the same dorm to the age of 17. They ate three fabulous meals each day while the townspeople starved. The book's character says there are no British in the Savannah area yet we know the colony was established by 114 colonists from Britain in 1733. Were there really pirates still around off the US coast in the 1770s?
The book was full of cliches and plot inconsistencies. The book received almost all 5-star reviews. Unexplainable.
I left off after 32 pages so maybe it got better but I wasn't going to go after it. The author's strength is in military (particularly naval) themes.
Also, the book was written for very young adults. One point of interest, this was the first time I saw the word "shew" used.
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Hey, I wore a hoop skirt back then...
Yes there were pirates in the 1700s although their heyday may have been over. Shoot, we have them making quite a comeback in some parts of the world TODAY.
I believe bonnets came into popularity about 1800, but there was a mob cap that looked very bonnet-like in the late 1700s. I thought a lot of the hats in the earl 1700s looked bonnet-like myself--the straw hats before the mob caps had ties for under the chin. This is NOT to defend the author as I haven't read the book and could care less one way or the other--it's because time-period clothing interests me. And I have no idea what they wore in Georgia specifically; I'm merely commenting on the clothing of the period.
I did find this article (because I looked it up because, as I said, this sort of thing interests me):
http://www.ehow.com/info_8479937_bonnets-1700s.html
In short it says bonnets were becoming popular in the 1700s and of course talks about the bonnets of the wealthy class and so on. From what I read, it's safe to say bonnets were being worn then in Georgia and elsewhere, and that same goes for hoop skirts, although the exact fashion in larger cities was likely "panniers" which are also described as "side hoops."
I love bonnets/hats and parasols; it's one of those things that interests me.
"Okay" was recorded as early as 1815, according to a friend of mine...so it wouldn't be out of the question to be in use in 1775.
And so on.