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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kilmore" data-source="post: 700943" data-attributes="member: 5226">Actually, hundreds of years ago in Massachusetts, the early pilgrims were very simple living people, dressing somber, building simple, and dedicating their lives to work.  All the clothes that they wore were of simple linen, IF they didn't have to settle for burlap or canvas.  Colors only ranged from the blacks and grays into white, and with the introduction of indigo from the southern colonies, blue.But as time went on, there arose a more prosperous class in Colonial America, and they were not ashamed to live a step above their hard working cousins, and they dressed the part.  Eventually silver from the Appalachian Mts. and gold plundered from the Spanish Main found itself in the shops of Boston and Philadelphia, and in addition to being used in jewelry and gilding of ships' prows and figureheads, it was spun into thread and woven into the fancy garments the new American aristocracy wore.The hard working people on the street, naturally scoffed at their fancier brethren, who wore what they called "vanity thread" and refused to have anything to do with it.Okay, I just made all that up.</blockquote>