Binns At Merchants Square, Williamsburg, Virginia

Binn's Fashion Shop is another of the neat stores at Colonial Williamsburg's Merchants Square.  It's beautiful building is always fronted by seasonally appropriate landscaping.

King's Treasure At Merchants Square, Williamsburg, Virginia

The King's Treasure souvenir and gift shop, in Colonial Williamsburg's Merchants Square, has been in business since 1919, originally as "The College Shop"   but as part of a unique family story in which the third generation still runs the business. Click here to read about the Wallace family who still runs this and other local shops.

Macaroni Prints At The Greenhow Store, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

We went through the Greenhow store in Colonial Williamsburg when family visited recently and saw these "Macaroni" prints.  To be a macaroni was an insult which is why and how the term is used in the song "Yankee Doodle."

One website uses this quote from the book Georgiana by Amanda Foreman to explain the term, as follows:

‘The term ‘macaroni’ was coined to describe the fashionable young fops of the 1770s. The term probably originated in the 1760s when members of the short lived Macaroni club brought attention to themselves by their prediliction for all things foreign, especially food. Macaronis were much criticised in the press. The Oxford Magazine complained: “There is indeed a kind of animal, neither male, nor female, a thing of neuter gender, lately started up among us. It is called a Macaroni. It talks without meaning, it smiles without pleasure, it eats without appetite, it rides without exercise, it wenches without passion.”‘

There seems to a macaroni print available many members of society.