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Hair Art: The Morbid Trend That Dominated the Victorian Era
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(Living)
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... so the trend became a popular parlor craft among middle-class white women of the Victorian era. According to Artsy, strands of hair were braided into bracelets, molded into loops to create floral patterns, ...
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Created on 05 April 2021
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How A Proper Introduction Could Make Or Break A Reputation In Victorian Society
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Today, introducing one stranger to another at a social or business gathering is simply polite behavior. But in the Victorian era, an introduction was a thing of infinite value. It was a voucher. A guarantee ...
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Created on 30 October 2019
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How Victorians Cared For Their Furry Friends
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(Living)
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... Herring, 1839.
This article originally appeared on MiMiMatthews.comMatthews.com and is reprinted here with permission.
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These Victorian Blues Were Guaranteed To Brighten Up ...
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Created on 23 October 2019
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These Victorian Blues Were Guaranteed To Brighten Up Any 19th Century Room
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(Style)
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... some of the loveliest examples of the color blue in Victorian fashion.
*Please note: Deep blues were generally achieved with aniline dye. Invented in 1856, aniline dye produced a wider range of color ...
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Created on 02 October 2019
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This 19th Century Empress's Beauty Routine Was Simply Too Muc
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(Feminism)
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Born in Munich on December 24, 1837, Her Royal Highness Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie became Empress of Austria when she married Emperor Franz Joseph at the age of sixteen. Though now widely acknowledged ...
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Created on 25 September 2019
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These 19th Century Sporting Cats Put Dogs To Shame
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When one thinks of a 19th century shooting party, one usually imagines well-to-do sportsmen in plus-fours and tweed caps, accompanied by their loaders, their beaters, and—of course—their sporting dogs. ...
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Created on 18 September 2019
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Before Flash Or Ring Lights Existed These 19th Century Ladies Swore By This Lighting
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The gas-lit ballrooms of the mid- to late nineteenth century weren’t as flattering to some colors as they were to others. For example, the 1897 edition of Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms ...
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Created on 10 September 2019
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How The Once Enslaved "Stagecoach Mary" Became The Gun-Toting First Black Woman Mail Carrie
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(Feminism)
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... sexual abuse, and other ills. But having an outspoken Black woman around with the potential to negatively influence the Native American girls they were trying to assimilate into Victorian whiteness was ...
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Created on 19 August 2019
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How Victorian Women Kept it Modest While Taking A Dip In Bathing Machines
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During the Victorian era, ladies visiting the public beach couldn’t simply wade out into the water and enjoy an invigorating swim. To protect their modesty, most ladies on a seaside holiday utilized ...
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Created on 06 August 2019
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These 3 Victorian DIY Skincare Products Were Packed With Fruit
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Victorian women didn’t have our knowledge of ultraviolet rays and SPF, but like us, they had a healthy respect for the damage that too much sun could wreak on their complexions. A fair, unblemished ...
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Created on 31 July 2019
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How Victorians Took To The Beach
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(Living)
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... sun.
Much as in the preceding decades, the silhouette of seaside dresses in the early Victorian era stayed relatively close to that of walking dresses. It was not until the 1860s that a definitive “seaside ...
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Created on 24 July 2019
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"Ungovernable" Is Darkly Comical ...
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(Books)
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Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent’s Guide to Raising Flawless Children By Therese Oneill (Little, Brown and Company)
Hey, moms! Did you know that you’ve been feeding your kids too many vegetables? ...
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Created on 15 July 2019
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Victorian Girls Took Their Skin Health Seriously, Check Out These DIY Sun Block Recipes
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(Living)
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Victorian women didn’t have our knowledge of ultraviolet rays and SPF, but like us, they had a healthy respect for the damage that too much sun could wreak on their complexions. A fair, unblemished ...
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Created on 03 July 2019
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These Carpet Bags Were Essential For Any Victorian Lady's Trave
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Victorian ladies have a reputation for tight-laced respectability, but not all women of the era were content with home and hearth. Some ladies traveled the world, living their lives in far off lands ...
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Created on 12 June 2019
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These Easter Bonnets Were Must-Haves In The Late 19th Century
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(Style)
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... as to declare that it was “an accepted fact that every woman who can buy or make a dainty bonnet for Easter-day must wear it.”
**Author’s Note: You can read more about the Victorian Easter Bunny HERE. ...
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Created on 16 April 2019
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A Comprehensive History Of Women's Underwea
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(Style)
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... so medieval ladies wore one long underdress (sexy), which later evolved into slips and petticoats.
By the early Victorian era, we started to see “drawers” being worn by women. Queen Victoria was a fan ...
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Created on 12 April 2019
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War Letters Teach Us More About History Than Any Textbook Can
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(Living)
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“The field of battle is a festival of honour; a sublime pageant. But this is war!” Sir Robert Ker Porter, 1809.
Whether it is touched upon in conversation between those characters safe on the ...
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Created on 03 April 2019
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These Women Fought For Sex Workers' And Women's Rights In The 19th Centur
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(Sex)
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The Contagious Diseases Act (here by shortened to the CD Act, because as important as it is…it’s one hell of a mouthful) came about in part due to the rapid rise of prostitution in Victorian England. ...
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Created on 29 March 2019
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Pug Yeah: Pugs in History and Literature
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... Benvenuti, 1809. (Palazzo Pitti)
This article originally appeared on MimiMatthews.com and is reprinted here with permission.
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Created on 26 March 2019
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A Victorian Ladies' Guide to Surviving Chivalrous Gentlemen Strangers
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Victorians had plenty of advice on how and when a lady should offer a word of gratitude, especially when that gratitude was in response to a service rendered by a gentleman stranger. Some believed ...
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Created on 20 March 2019
