by gwffoundation | Oct 23, 2021 | Lives & Legacies
Looking back in time, people’s personal hygiene, fashion choices, medical treatments, and more can seem disgusting. When confronted with gross practices, our first reaction can be to dismiss our ancestors as primitive, ignorant, or just silly. Before such judgments,...
by gwffoundation | Sep 22, 2017 | Fashion in History, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
After unearthing over 200 wig hair curlers from Washington’s Boyhood Home, we were in a position to do something that – to our knowledge – has never been done before: crossmend all those curler fragments. As a result, we can now predict the minimum number...
