Women’s clothing exhibit at Acadian Museum dispels the myth of Evangeline’s outfit
For a long time, Annette Léger White says there wasn’t much research being done into Acadian women’s clothing. After the popularity of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, Evangeline, the idea of the typical Acadian woman was cemented in people’s minds. “The long skirt and apron, and the bonnet and the corset, or the vest and the…