Category: Victoria

Luxury Brand. A final reason that Victoria’s Secret is expensive has to do with the simple fact that it’s a luxury brand. While it does have some cheaper bras and other pieces of lingerie available, most of its stock is expensive. Is Victoria Secret a good brand? Victoria’s Secret has a consumer rating of 3.59 […]

For ease of use, Victorian women could simply hold the chamber pot in their hands, rest a foot on the top of the chair, and hold the chamber pot underneath the skirts. For those who wish for visual aids (not at all indecent!), Prior Attire demonstrates using the restroom in Victorian clothing. What did the […]

The ideal Victorian woman was pure, chaste, refined, and modest. This ideal was supported by etiquette and manners. The etiquette extended to the pretension of never acknowledging the use of undergarments (in fact, they were sometimes generically referred to as “unmentionables”). What is Victorian attitude? Generally speaking, Victorian moral codes emphasized faith, charity, and respect. […]

Corsets, crinolines and bustles: fashionable Victorian underwear. It was often the structures beneath Victorian clothing that gave women’s fashion its form. Corsets (also known as stays) moulded the waist, while cage crinolines supported voluminous skirts, and bustles projected a dress out from behind. What did they wear under dresses in the 1800s? A petticoat was […]

Poor families ate more carbohydrates, such as bread, potatoes and porridge oats, as these were cheaper and more filling. Bread with lard or dripping spread across it was a staple meal. Seasonal vegetables were also a large part of their diets. These include onions, turnips, cabbages, apples and parsnips. What did Victorian kids eat? Popular […]

Women’s fashion in the Victorian era was known for its big skirts, tight corsets, and bonnets. Women in this time period wore many layers of dresses, blouses, skirts, coats, and they were prohibited to show as little as an ankle. Under these dresses the women wore corsets that limited their movement throughout the day. What […]

Characteristics of Victorian Architecture Steeply pitched roofs. Plain or colorfully painted brick. Ornate gables. Painted iron railings. Churchlike rooftop finials. Sliding sash and canted bay windows. Octagonal or round towers and turrets to draw the eye upward. Two to three stories. What are the characteristics of Victorian style? Defining features of a Victorian home Steep, […]

Until 1823 the legal age in England for marriage was 21 years for men and women although after 1823 a male could marry as young as 14 without parental consent and a girl at 12 although most girls didn’t marry until around the ages of 18 to 23. What age did people get married in […]

At the beginning of the Victorian era, the predominant scent was Eau de Cologne. Consisting of a base of neroli oil (an oil derived from orange blossoms and flowers from the bitter orange tree), Eau de Cologne had risen to popularity during the 18th century. Did they have perfume in Victorian times? In the Victorian […]

There was no deodorant, let alone disposable razors, so some women placed half-moon-shaped “dress shields” between their clothes and their hairy, sweaty armpits. But really, the most surefire way for a lady to deal with body odor was to wear perfume — a lot of it. What did they use for deodorant in the old […]