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Women would wear a shift, which was also worn at night, a petticoat and a gown with detachable sleeves, though later in the century bedgowns became more popular as did the wearing of the petticoat with a jacket - another garment which morphed into genteel fashion.
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Jul 22, 2016 · In 1800 working-class people wore linen underwear, men wore woollen outer clothing, and women wore cotton, linen and woollen dresses. By 1850 the cotton, linen and woollen trades were fully mechanised in England.
Aug 20, 2015 · The corset of Victorian working women was called stays. Stays were made of dark, sturdy material – such as wool or jean – and unboned or just lightly boned. They were worn for support while working and to evenly distribute the weight of the petticoats. I’m wearing my black wool stays.
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One of the most marked gulfs between the appearance of working people and their employers was the use of livery for retainers and household servants. This practice of providing uniform clothing in the colors and style of a particular household was used to augment wages, and it served to embody hierarchy by distinguishing between employees and emplo...
Modish and symbolic use of working-class dress entered general consumption in various ways and in general over the last three centuries; there has been a significant flow of garment types and textiles from utilitarian and occupational clothing into fashion. Examples include appropriation of military combat styles into everyday wear and the rough an...
Before the advent of systematic state support in the twentieth century, various local or parish bodies and charitable organizations took responsibility for those unable to help themselves, and clothing for such men, women, and children was often part of the provision. Outside this framework, provision was uncertain because it was dependent on incom...
The common utilitarian dress for laboring men before the twentieth century was made up of breeches or trousers, jackets, and waistcoats of hard-wearing materials such as moleskin, fustian, or corduroy. In some situations, working women were the first women to don breeches or trousers. This occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century in Br...
Crane, Diana. Fashion and its Social Agendas: Class, Gender and Identity in Clothing. Chicago: University of ChicagoPress, 2000. De Marly, Diana. Working Dress: A History of Occupational Clothing.London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1986. Hall, Lee. Common Threads: A Parade of American Clothing.London: Little, Brown and Company, 1992. Kidwell, Claudia, an...
If anything, conventional opinion held the reverse to be true: Englishmen laboured less hard than others; they were ill-adapted to even more marvellous machinery; their work irritated them; ingenious Americans and docile Germans passed them on all sides.
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Feb 2, 2015 · A North London street, 1950s. When history emerged as a scholarly discipline in British universities at the end of the 19th century, it rarely took working-class people as its focus. History was about the great and the good – about kings, queens, archbishops and diplomats.
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In this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor who valued clothing not only for its practical utility, but also as a central element in the creation and assertion of collective and individual identities.
