Historic Williamsburg

41. Margaret Hunter Shop

Williamsburg, VA

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During the colonial period, a milliner named Margaret Hunter owned what is now called the Margaret Hunter Shop. She sold fashionable ladies' accessories from her store at the front of the building, and lived in the back rooms. Milliner's shops were typically owned and operated by women. These women sold fabric and used it to create hats, gown trimmings, cloaks, shirts, hoods, aprons, petticoats and other accessories for their customers. They also sold a variety of imported fashion-related goods. Interpreters at the Hunter Shop demonstrate technologies and trade methods of the eighteenth century as they apply to ladies' fashions.