Great references!! Another Holmes fan!
Yours in costuming, Lisa a
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:44:38 +0100 Kate Bunting
writes:
> Another point: some of Sherlock Holmes's deductions depend on the
> fact that
> lower middle-class Victorians owned fewer clothes than most of us do
> today.
> Even aft
Another point: some of Sherlock Holmes's deductions depend on the fact that
lower middle-class Victorians owned fewer clothes than most of us do today.
Even after the textile industry was mechanised, before the invention of
synthetic fibres clothing was comparatively expensive. So, the typist in "A
