Victorian Era

If I could go back in time I would go to London during the Victorian era. I have always been interested in the upper class members of society during this time. The thought of being able to go to one of their fancy and elaborate parties has always been a dream of mine. Times have changed of course but I am forever interested in the beautiful gowns that they wore. Corsets must have been terrible but they made for a truly beautiful woman. In 1652 the coffee houses began because of the introduction of coffee to England and Turkey. Coffee houses eventually turned into clubs where the fashionable and military style came into play. I have always enjoyed the thought of dressing up to dance elegantly with friends or even eventually meeting new people through the forever changing sequences during one song.

The romantic influence on women in this society is another reason I love the Victorian era. In a novel I love to read about the emotions that pass between a man and a woman during this time. I haven’t figured out yet if people back then loved harder than we do now or if it’s just the writing styles (lol). Every time I read a book from this era I want to experience what they see every time they go to a party or hang out in a club. Sex scandals were very common in the literature during this era and I won’t go into the details here but you can Google that yourself if you’d like. The women of this time period were required to support themselves and that included making their own dresses. Lower, Middle, and Upper class women or “distressed gentlewomen” had the job of making their clothes themselves or paying for someone to do it themselves. I am interested, wholeheartedly, in the Victorian Era and if I had a time machine I’d go there. J