Dating in the Victorian era in America and in Britain meant navigating through a fog of modesty, prudence, ritual, corsets, top hats, calling cards, and your inner voice feverishly whispering ...

Many great inventions came out of the Victorian era, from the photograph to the electric lightbulb. The elastic opera hat and the anti-cholera belt, however, are not among their illustrious numbers.

Fashion has always been more than just clothing. It reflects a lot that we think - society, culture and even power structures. For women especially, what they wear has been historically linked to ...

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. — The dream of the 1890s is alive here. In Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman's Victorian home, there are three high-wheel bicycles and a tricycle, a Perfection kerosene heater, an icebox ...

Medical doctors almost uniformly expressed concern that tight lacing was not healthful, there doesn’t appear to be a thoroughly documented death caused by the fashion. In the autumn of 1888, Mrs.