What did the men wear on the gold fields?

Answer 1

In colonial Australia people made ther own clothing. What they wore would have been similar to america. Stiff fabrics, jeans, long coats, boots. Not jeans like we have today- tougher. Men back then wher rugged real manly men that you don't see anymore, instead its boys in pink mini shorts gently licking the icecream of a spoon- and when he pulls it out of his mouth u notice the spoon has a very long handle and wonder.

Answer 2

Children on the goldfields wore what they normally wore - play clothes, long or short breeches for the boys, and dresses for the girls. These clothes were basically the same as what their counterparts elsewhere wore, according to the traditions and customs of the time.

Answer 3

The men on the gold fields wore loose-fitting, comfortable clothes. They had long trousers held up with a belt, rope or braces. They tended to wear longer sleeved shirts if they were out in the sun, or sometimes they would strip off their shirts when the heat became unbearable - as it often did. If they were out in the sun, they tended to wear wide-brimmed hats.

The miners' clothing depended on their ethnic group. Standard clothing for many of European ethnicity was just loose-fitting trousers and shirt, with strong boots. The Chinese wore the clothing of their culture. Many times, miners' clothing may have become quite threadbare: they could not afford new clothing because tailors and/or other suppliers of clothing would chage over-inflated prices, knowing that the rules of supply and demand would dictate how much they could charge. Miners did not want to leave the prospect of "striking it rich" to take a coach all the way to Sydney or melbourne, so suppliers of goods on the goldfields had a monopoly.