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A Pilgrim Boy’s Clothes

Use the diagram to answer the questions.
1. What were doublets, breeches, and stockings
made of?
Boys wore doublets.
Doublets were
made of cotton.
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2. When would boys start wearing breeches?

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Boys started
wearing cotton
breeches at age 3. What did boys wear before then?
6. Before that,
they wore skirts.

4. How are breeches different from the pants we

They wore cotton wear today?
stockings on
their legs.
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