Monday evening we visited four shops in Williamsburg: The Millenary, silversmith, bookbinder, and wigmaker. Each one gave us some interesting tidbits, some of which I knew but had forgotten about, others that were new.
The milliner got its name from the French word for 1000 because they carried so many different types of things. One of the more interesting items was false hips, which were worn to make a woman look plumper because that was more attractive in that time.
Another item was a padded hat for babies called a puddin’ cap. This was to protect their heads from injury which could make them “soft in the head” or a “puddin’head”.
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