You also need to consider that at that time in some countries a woman of upper class had to give the illusion of delicacy and was expected to eat tiny portions (I believe Q. Victoria told women to eat small portions, among other advise she gave) and therefore would have secreted food for later consumption especially if one was not married. There is also the dish(es) that one chef knows how to make and he is not your chef, so you horde the treat for later. De
-----Original Message----- There are a couple of issues here, one being that the desperately poor may stoop to things the affluent attending a ball would not stoop to. The other is that middle- and upper-class Victorian women were determined that their clothes should look clean and tidy at all times, without the benefit of modern dry cleaning and laundry methods and with smaller wardrobes than we have. Fran Lavolta Press www.lavoltapress.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
