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1. Canadian Judge Challenges Justice System in Case of Indigenous Women Charged with Drunk Driving: (Feminism); ... genocide, the residential school system operated between the 1870s and the late 1990s, with the last residential school closing in 1996. The Canadian government ran the schools under the Department of ...; Created on 06 October 2020
2. These Victorian Blues Were Guaranteed To Brighten Up Any 19th Century Room: (Style); ... blue, from the palest to the darkest. For day wear, light blue was well represented, as illustrated by the silk shoes below. 1870s Silk Shoes. (Met Museum) For evening wear, Victorian ladies frequently ...; Created on 02 October 2019
3. How Victorians Took To The Beach: (Living); ... the 1870s and is trimmed with seashells. 1864-1867 Seaside Ensemble. (Image via LACMA) 1864-1867 Seaside Ensemble. (Image via LACMA) By the late 1860s, the silhouette of ladies’ gowns was beginning ...; Created on 24 July 2019
4. Mother Jones Was A Hell-Raising Trailblazer In The Fight For Workers' Rights: (Feminism); ... company owners, which were frequent throughout the 1870s and ’80s. In July 1877, Chicago workers walked off the job in support of a railway strike in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, where, in Pittsburgh, ...; Created on 30 January 2019
5. A Look At Ladies' Shawls In Classic 19th Century Literature: (Style); ... William Holman Hunt, 1866-1867 By the 1870s, the popularity of the cashmere shawl was in decline. This had less to do with the dictates of fashion and more with global politics and famine. As Sir Walter ...; Created on 15 January 2019
6. Victorian Fashion Dolls And The Feminine Ideal: (Living); ... equally gorgeous Victorian wardrobes. The dolls—known as Miss Fanchon, Miss G. Townsend, Miss French Mary, and Marie Antoinette—were all made in France during the 1860s and 1870s. They have painted bisque ...; Created on 24 October 2018
7. Victorians Had Standards Of Beauty For The Elbows: (Style); ... 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s, could often have up to fifteen or even twenty buttons. However, even though it was possible to disguise an elbow with a long glove, fashion magazines of the day advised that it ...; Created on 05 September 2018
8. What It Was Like To Attend Afternoon Tea In The Victorian Era: (Living); ... (Met Museum) By the late 1870s, some ladies were beginning to don tea gowns. These gowns were loose fitting and fairly unstructured, leading to criticism that they were too much like dressing gowns to ...; Created on 24 July 2018
9. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Name Removed From Award. Here's Why That's A Good Thi: (Books); ... them. And the writing was not even necessarily factual: reading the Little House on the Prarie books as a kid, I grew up believing that white settlers in Kansas in the 1870s were at constant risk for violent ...; Created on 27 June 2018
10. Victorians Removed Unwanted Hair With...Arsenic?: (Style); ... into the hair root. According to Fletcher, “The nitrate cauterizes and destroys the papilla, and of course the hair drops out.” Electrolysis In the 1870s, physicians began to offer a new method for ...; Created on 13 June 2018
11. The Rare Dog Breed That Queen Victoria Loved: (Entertainment); ... Deerhound named Hector (seen in the above portrait by Landseer). By the 1870s, there were several Scottish Deerhounds at Windsor Great Park. And by the end of the century, the Scottish Deerhound Club was ...; Created on 13 March 2018
12. Victorian Pleasure Gardens Were Surprisingly Dangerous: (Entertainment); ... into what one Baptist minister of the 1870s referred to as “a nursery of vice.” Robberies and assaults were regularly reported, as were the activities of sex workers and their clients. In the end, it was ...; Created on 06 March 2018
13. What's All The Bustle About? A Visual Guide To 19th Century Fashio: (Style); ... a late-Victorian dress with a bustle. But it is harder to pinpoint the differences in style during the transitional decades, the 1820s, 1830s, and 1870s, for instance. With that in mind, I present you ...; Created on 27 February 2018
14. Britain’s Five Most Horrifyingly Haunted Places: (Living); ... all…). Woodchester Mansion Woodchester Mansion is just a shell of what would have been an impressive gothic mansion, but it’s a strange story because the building was suddenly abandoned in the 1870s ...; Created on 16 February 2018
15. The Strange Role Cats Played In Victorian Fashion: (Style); ... 1887 During the mid-1880s, the silhouette of women’s gowns was characterized by the size and shape of the bustle or “dress improver.” Unlike the more moderate-sized dress improvers of the 1870s, the ...; Created on 06 February 2018
16. How Victorian Women Wore Purple: (Style); ... silk satin with brass sequins, gold covered sticks, and mother-of-pearl. 1867-1876 Silk Satin Fan. (MFA Boston) According to fashion historian C. Willett Cunnington, by the early 1870s, “gigantic fans” ...; Created on 10 January 2018
17. In The Victorian Era, Babies Wore (Sometimes Deadly) Veils: (Style); ... harmful pollutants which might mar their delicate skin or injure their eyes. By the 1870s and 1880s, baby veils had become so ubiquitous that sewing books, ladies’ magazines, and even etiquette manuals ...; Created on 03 January 2018
18. How Victorian Women Wore Red: (Living); ... black. However, Audsley warns that crimson and black or brown—though technically harmonious—make a rather dull combination. Late 1870s Red Silk Ball Gown (Met Museum) Red and gold was another popular ...; Created on 29 November 2017
19. Here's What Victorian Women Used For Hairspra: (Style); ... fingers. Coiffures, Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1865. By the mid- to late 1870s, the popularity of gum solutions like bandoline was on the decline. As the 1876 edition of Godey’s Lady’s Book reports: “Bandoline ...; Created on 01 November 2017
20. Here's What Fashionable Men Dressed Like In The 1800: (Style); ... century. During the 1870s, they were cut a bit fuller for day wear, with the knee measuring the same width as at the ankle. For evening wear, trousers were slightly narrower. 1870-1880 Wool Trousers. ...; Created on 06 September 2017

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