Victorian Lifestyles :: Papers

Victorian Lifestyles Working clothes for poorer people were often passed land within the family or bought from second hand shops. They were usually made from coarsely woven wool or cotton cloth and they would be mended and uneven to make them last a tenacious time. Most people act to have a better set of clothes for Sunday best. Wealthier families could afford immaterial appareled and clothes made from better quality material. Ladies were interested in fashion and read magazines like The Young Ladies Journal to find discover about the latest styles. Early Victorian ladies wore full skirts with as many a(prenominal) as six petticoats. In the 1850s crinoline skirts were supported on telegram cages and later padded cushions or bustles were tied around the waist down the stairs the skirts to make them stick out at the back. Ladies wore tightly laced corsets to confine them the narrow waists that were thought to be attractive. Well off men wore hu man knee length frock coats in silk or velvet, silk waistcoats and shirts with stiffly starched high collars. underneath they wore vests and long underpants made from woollen cloth. They wore a top hat or perhaps a newly fashionable bowler hat and carried a cane or walking stick. Beards and side-whiskers were also fashionable. Children in flush(p) families wore very formal clothes. Girls wore dresses which were as fancy as the grown ups unless slightly shorter. Boys wore dresses until they were about five or six and then were dressed in sailor suits or velvet suits with lace collars and cuffs. Until Isaac Singer invented the secure machine in 1851 all clothes were made by hand. Seamstresses worked long hours for low wages, stitching clothes for wealthy people. In the Victorian menses work inside and outside the home took up much more time than it does today and working people had far less vacant time. There was little money to spare and no radio, te levision, CDs, cinemas or sports centres. People, however, fix all sorts of ways of enjoying what free time they had.