How to Make a Quick Suffragette Sash

Do you need a quick costume? Look in your closet!

You could be a

  • Gypsy - flowing skirt, scarf around your hair, lots of big jewelry

  • Pirate - flowing skirt, boots, wide belt, baggy white shirt

You could be a Suffragette!

Suffragette costume headshot

In the United States, women began gathering to push for the right to vote in 1848.

In the United States, women got the right to vote in 1920.

That’s 72 years!

Because you can be a suffragette from any time period in that 72 years, any long-ish skirt that you already have is perfect. Add a white blouse and any kind of hat and you are good.

All you need is a Votes for Women sash and a sign.

You can quickly make a sash using satin blanket binding, bias tape, and a Cricut iron on letter maker.

I hadn’t used a Cricut before this project. It definitely saved a lot of time, and gave professional looking results! I didn’t buy it for this project; my daughter happened to have one for me to borrow. It’s under $150 right now. If you buy one by clicking the link, I get a tiny commission, and you get a powerful little device!

This video shows you how!

Read these inspirational words from the American National Women’s Party 1913 Newsletter:

Purple is the color of loyalty, constancy to purpose, unswerving steadfastness to a cause. White, the emblem of purity, symbolizes the quality of our purpose; and gold, the color of light and life, is as the torch that guides our purpose, pure and unswerving.

Mrs. Banks would be so proud!

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