Not quite costume question, but can anyone point me to a source that documents or refers to the social occasion of women leaving the dinnertable and retiring elsewhere while the men continue their after dinner conversations, etc? I have always understood this was a Victorian convention but am now being told this was also the "Thing" in the 18th Century. When did the post parandial begin?
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