Dress Diary V. "Soldiers wife 1700-1721"

Making an early 18th c. swedish soldiers' wifes wardrobe - for reenactment. Uniforms are well documented, but what about their wifes (keeping up the household and farms at home). The soldiers were paid in the form of a small farmstead on wich the soldiers family had to get their living. The social rank of the soldier and his wife was between the local farmer familys and upper rank people as the clergymen. They may be poor, but soldiers served the king...