After I checked my mail this morning and got all the tips about
researching, starting with cconsulting the back of the book, I went and
looked in the back of some of my books! One book wasn't a book on
fashion, but in it the author rather studies and compares the
differences between our society today and Victorian society, and how
many of the things that are bad today are the result of things that
changed from that era, it really is fascinating and she nails many good
points in the head. The bibliography is huge! Most of the literature
consists of books written in the 1980s and 90's but there are a few
titles, most reprinted, from the 1880s and I noticed that most of those
were reprinted by one specific publishing company, so I will look them
up. I will be sure to send along any bad books I get but most of my
purchases are done so with care to avoid that sort of problem. However,
I recall quite a few of those basic costume through history books on
our library shelves that were printed I guess mainly for kids doing
reports on a specific time period or someone doing a play. Our library
system also has the network so that you can reserve/order books from
any other library within the system and it's fairly fast cause I did it
once, our branch here, though the prettiest library you can imagine,
has a very poor selection on such topics for serious researchers,
sadly. Even the other titles from other locations were again those
broken down overview books where one person has done all the hunting
and gathering and sloshed it together into one book. I will remember
now that whenever I have one of those, to get a piece of paper and pen
or pencil and just browse through the back of it. I have an original
book of etiquette from 1880 so I take much of the content of that book
more seriously than I would a new book about the Victorian era only
such form varied from place to place and what rules applied in one town
may not have been weighed so heavily in others.
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