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 would be included since even
if the women didn't work outside the home as in more recent centuries they
definitely contributed, maybe afford to throw the occasional gathering or party
and had a special outfit or two for funerals or special occasions such as
holidays. I'm thinking yeoman or burgher class for earlier centuries. People
with enough not to feel threatened financially on a daily basis but not so much
that the adults were idle. I hope I'm making sense.
And on a another note I just saw Lizzie Borden Took an Axe with Christine
Ricci in it and the outfit she's wearing through most of the movie's day of the
murder just seems wrong to me. Is it supposed to be an underdress because it's
hot or a housedress or a fantasy?
Cassandra
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