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Victorian Age

The Victorian Age spans 1837-1901 during Queen Victoria's reign. London became a rich and influential city due to the Industrial Revolution, though this also led to poor living and working conditions for many. Women had few legal rights and their role was largely confined to the home and family. Fashion evolved significantly over this period due to new technologies, and clothing production shifted from custom to factory-made goods. Overall it was a time of both economic growth and social problems regarding pollution, public health, and treatment of the working classes and women.

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Victorian Age

The Victorian Age spans 1837-1901 during Queen Victoria's reign. London became a rich and influential city due to the Industrial Revolution, though this also led to poor living and working conditions for many. Women had few legal rights and their role was largely confined to the home and family. Fashion evolved significantly over this period due to new technologies, and clothing production shifted from custom to factory-made goods. Overall it was a time of both economic growth and social problems regarding pollution, public health, and treatment of the working classes and women.

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The Victorian Age

1837-1901
Queen Victoria
(1819-1901)
Great Britain was a very important and rich nation in the middle of the nineteenth
century. London was the biggest and most influential city in Europe.
Merchants and professionals became rich in London. These people became part of the
new high society. They were well educated and lived in beautiful houses with servants.
They were always very elegant and often went to the theatre, parties and dinners.
During the Industrial Revolution thousands of people came to London from all over the
country. They found work in the factories. Young children worked in the factories too.
Adults and children worked very long hours in terrible conditions. Children often did
the most dangerous work because they were small: chimney sweeps, for example! They
were many accidents at work and some were fatal.
Workers made very little money and lived in small, dark houses.
Some people had no work and no home. These men, women and children often because
beggars or criminals. Others lived in a workhouse. The poor laws of 1598 – 1601 and
changed in 1834 obligated the local priest to take care of the poor in his area.
This was the beginning of the workhouses.
They were often sad, squalid places.
Main Features:

- The Industrial Revolution and Free Trade


- Social Conflicts
- Social Reforms
- Victorian values: Family, Respectability,
Morality
- Religion
- The Condition of Women : the DoubleStandard
- Colonial expansion
POSITIVE ASPECTS OF THE
VICTORIAN AGE:

- Industrial revolution
- Technological advances
- Economical progress.

but There is lots of


NEGATIVE aspects...
Negative aspects of the
Victorian Age:

- Pollution in the towns


provoked by the factories
- Hygienic conditions
- Epidemics
WOMEN IN VICTORIAN
ERA
The status of Women in the Victorian Era is often seen as an illustration of
the striking discrepancy between England's national power and wealth and
what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions. During
the era symbolized by the reign of British monarch Queen Victoria,
difficulties escalated for women because of the vision of the "ideal woman"
shared by most in the society. The legal rights of married women were
similar to those of children; they could not vote or sue or even own property.
Also, they were seen as pure and clean. Because of this view, their bodies
were seen as temples which should not be adorned with jewelry nor used for
physical exertion or pleasurable sex. The role of women was to have children
and tend to the house. They could not hold a job unless it was that of a
teacher or a domestic servant, nor were they allowed to have their own
checking accounts or savings accounts. In the end, they were to be treated as
saints, but saints that had no legal rights. Then there is the problem of
PROSTITUTION.
CLOTES
See also fashion by decades: 1830s - 1840s - 1850s - 1860s - 1870s - 1880s- 1890s
Methods of clothing production and distribution varied enormously over the course of Victoria's
long reign.
In 1837, cloth was manufactured (in the mill towns of northern England, Scotland, and Ireland)
but clothing was generally custom-made by seamstresses, milliners, tailors, hatters, glovers,
corsetiers, and many other specialized tradespeople, who served a local clientele in small shops.
Families who could not afford to patronize specialists made their own clothing, or bought and
modified used clothing.
By 1907, clothing was increasingly factory-made and sold in large, fixed price department stores.
Custom sewing and home sewing were still significant, but on the decline.
New machinery and materials changed clothing in many ways.
The introduction of the lock-stitch sewing machine in mid-century simplified both home and
boutique dressmaking, and enabled a fashion for lavish application of trim that would have been
prohibitively time-consuming if done by hand. Lace machinery made lace at a fraction of the cost
of the old, laborious methods.
New materials from far-flung British colonies gave rise to new types of clothing (such as rubber
making gumboots and mackintoshes possible). Chemists developed new, cheap, bright dyes that
displaced the old animal or vegetable dyes.
Women's fashionable clothing began with a straight, Regency
silhouette, bloomed into exaggerated skirts and sleeves,
moved to small shoulders and even wider skirts supported by
crinolines or hoops, and narrowed by way of the bustle to
hobble skirts.
Charles Frederick Worth, the "father of haute couture" and the
prototype of the fashion designer as the dictator of modes,
was a London draper who relocated to Paris in the 1840s.
His success led to the dominance of Paris fashion houses as
arbiters of style and the preferred clothiers for upper-class
women in both Britain and America.
Reactions to the elaborate confections of French fashion led
to various calls for reform on the grounds of both beauty
(Artistic and Aesthetic dress) and health (dress reform).
Arthur Lasenby Liberty challenged the dominance of French
fashion when he showed English gowns in Paris at the end of
the century.

MEN’S CLOTHING
Men's fashionable clothing was perhaps the least volatile, but
there was still an enormous difference between the wasp
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