Interpreters at Staatsburgh often dress in period clothing while giving tours in order to best represent the period. Guests often wonder where we get the clothing and what makes it authentic. While there are several excellent retailers who sell reproduction clothing, the NYS Bureau of Historic Sites also has wonderful seamstresses who sew period clothing. This blog, authored by Amanda Massie, Associate Curator at the NYS Bureau of Historic Sites, examines the research that went into maids' clothing sewn for Staatsburgh.
