THE DRESS DIARY: Secrets From a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe ... thanks in part to a rising middle class, “dress had grown increasingly complex as an indicator of time of day and occasion.” ...

Donna Loftus explores how social change transformed the aspirations of an emerging Victorian middle class and the value this class represented. The image of the nineteenth century as a period of ...

Companions were often the poorest-paid and in sparse demand, and a dress shop was risky and required capital, so most educated middle-class women ... were so common among Victorian sex workers ...

That’s what you might very well take away from Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present ... way into fashion periodicals aimed at middle-class women. Chemistry democratized ...