This video has been 6 months in the making, but at last, I show the process of sewing a late 1800s Irish working women's clothing. In part 1 of this series. I took a DNA test to find out about my adopted father's ancestry, as one of my goals is to make historical clothing I can wear day to day from each of my ancestral origins. My father's side has always remained a mystery, but the test revealed that his father was Irish/Scottish, and his mother was most likely Ukrainian.

If you'd like to watch part 1 of the series, here's a link:    • I Found My Adopted Father's Heritage....  

Irish fashion in general, especially working class fashion, has very limited information, so I felt this was an incredibly important project on many levels.

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A big thanks to @Vintagebursche for filming the reveal at the end of the video. Go and check out his channel, it's great.

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Sources:
Rose Madder:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Madison60, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Lichen:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Red Skirt Examples:
https://www.ighm.org/learn.html
https://costumesociety.org.uk/blog/po...
https://connemara.irish/news/traditio...

Pampootie Shoe:
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/hi...

Soleless Stockings:
  / 1265568479190626306  

Barefoot Depictions:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/40138...

Irish Shawls:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/2849655...

Paisley Scottish Shawls:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Galway Shawl:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
LynnMGallagher, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Irish Terrain:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Mantilla:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ob...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...

Irish Working Class Fashion 1800s:
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/34234...
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/11596...
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/34234...
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/21392...
https://ballymaclinton.wordpress.com/...

Northern English Working Class Fashion 1800s:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Simple Construction Garments:
http://fashionablefrolick.blogspot.co...

Victorian Working Class Fashion:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://witness2fashion.wordpress.com...
“Victorian Working Women” (book)

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