Hi All,
I've given some thought as to how I would describe middle class for my
research project since you're all correct in that middle class covers a wide
range.
I'm looking at people who had enough that they could grow or purchase enough
food to not worry about having food, farm families
Sounds like you are looking at the lower middle class. As for parties,
everybody had them, at least on holidays, weddings, and other special
occasions. The issue is how fancy the parties were.
Note that judging from period fiction, women of the Victorian lower and
middle-middle classes were
Hi Cassandra,
Long time, since Ive heard from you. Lizzie Borden, according to my
research, would have been dressed in a normal way on the day of the
murders. Every movie Ive seen about her is a fantasy, as well as most
if not all of the documentaries.
We know:
* that she was wearing a
Well, my first impression from Google images was that the white garment was a
shift, the cotton slip you'd wear at the base of everything, corset goes over
it, bustle bum-roll goes over it, only any possible knickers would go under
it…
a VERY Lizzie-phile website where I found a review of the
