What Irish Working Women Wore in the Late 19th Century | I Made the Clothing of My Irish Ancestors

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: So this is part 2 of the series, where I construct and research my own Irish working class ensemble, and some important questions about Irish historical fashion to Irish fashion historian Laura Fitzachary. Irish fashion in general, especially working class fashion, has very limited information, so I felt this was an incredibly important project on many levels. If you’d like to follow Laura Fitzachary