What's middle class? For example, in the Victorian era this included
people who were just barely managing to keep up a middle-class
appearance, and an upper middle class that could be quite affluent.
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books on historic clothing
www.lavoltapress.com
On 10/8/2014 4:16 PM, Cascio Michael wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to look into the size of the average middle-class woman's
wardrobe through the centuries. Finding advice on the trousseau is easier, at
least after the advent of ladies' magazines but I'm most interested in how many
dresses a middle class woman would own. How common was the one dress for every
day and one for Sunday with a multitude of aprons? Do women start having more
dresses after the advent of cheap cotton? Since the list covers a large span
of history I'm hoping for answers from many centuries.
Cassandra
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