"Etiquette" is the one word that best describes life during the reign of Queen Victoria.
For those in the upper echelons of society, rules such as the proper forms of address even what to wear were all considered very important to them. However Victorian society did not recognize that there was a lower class. 'The Poor' were invisible. Status was prominent in this era as people were segregated differently depending on their own family wealth.
Technically the Victorian era began in 1837 and ended with Queen Victoria's death in 1901, but the period has been stretched out to include the years both before and after these dates, roughly from the Napoleonic Wars until the outburst of World War I in 1914.
The Queen was the most influential figure of this era (as queen’s often were), a young queen who became a young wife and mother. She advertised exactly what it was to be a woman during this time period she displayed through domesticity, family, and motherhood which were all things that were highly valued in Victorian society, simply because Queen Victoria herself embodied all of these values. Apart from the queen the woman who started this whole craze of the small waist and large bust, hips was not even a real person. The Gibson Girl, she began appearing in the 1890s and was the embodiment of an ideal female …show more content…
Women wore corsets to cinch their waists as tightly as possible, creating that desired hourglass figure. Insinuating the size of the bust and hips. These corsets physically restrained women’s range of motion, displaying their separation from physical labor and men. Again women having this already established career for marriage and breeding children. This flows into fashion, as it was just as important to always look presentable, as it is to be polite. To be caught in the wrong fashion at the wrong time of day was as greatly to be feared as addressing a member of society by the wrong
For those in the upper echelons of society, rules such as the proper forms of address even what to wear were all considered very important to them. However Victorian society did not recognize that there was a lower class. 'The Poor' were invisible. Status was prominent in this era as people were segregated differently depending on their own family wealth.
Technically the Victorian era began in 1837 and ended with Queen Victoria's death in 1901, but the period has been stretched out to include the years both before and after these dates, roughly from the Napoleonic Wars until the outburst of World War I in 1914.
The Queen was the most influential figure of this era (as queen’s often were), a young queen who became a young wife and mother. She advertised exactly what it was to be a woman during this time period she displayed through domesticity, family, and motherhood which were all things that were highly valued in Victorian society, simply because Queen Victoria herself embodied all of these values. Apart from the queen the woman who started this whole craze of the small waist and large bust, hips was not even a real person. The Gibson Girl, she began appearing in the 1890s and was the embodiment of an ideal female …show more content…
Women wore corsets to cinch their waists as tightly as possible, creating that desired hourglass figure. Insinuating the size of the bust and hips. These corsets physically restrained women’s range of motion, displaying their separation from physical labor and men. Again women having this already established career for marriage and breeding children. This flows into fashion, as it was just as important to always look presentable, as it is to be polite. To be caught in the wrong fashion at the wrong time of day was as greatly to be feared as addressing a member of society by the wrong