When Marian and Bertha had recently gone to the opera house it was very warm inside and Marian expressed to Betha she wished she had her very own fan. And here Bertha gives her one as a party favor! 🫰🏽
Yes. Bertha might be a little too caught up in her schemes and her pursuit of status but she's a lady with a heart of gold. For those she deems it as such...
I know... and the horses don't sh-t and the white stone isn't at all effected by all the ash and soot pumped out by those fireplaces and such.. too pristine.. even for the gilded age!
@@creativewriter3887 The Russell’s house is brand new, and as such the stonework is still gleamingly clean. You’ll notice if you look at old photos of the posh streets of New York in that era, that streets generally look quite clean. They had armies of servants to keep the street free of animal waste. And many of the houses were brand new, and had not yet started to show signs of decay from time and pollution. Images of the 5th Avenue mansions taken in the 1880s show a marked contrast with the grittier images of the same houses in the 1920s.
OMG/G!!!! That table setting and dinning room decor are INSANE! Wait, how did they keep the candles 🕯 from burning the flowers or was the candlelight CGI? The gifts were a serious nice touch. I wish I could watch the entire series, I don't have HBO or any paid streaming services. 😮 😔
@@luxitos2867 in the 19th century even Middle class white collar workers would generally have servants, even in apartments as small as 100 sq.m. Having live-in household staff was standard until after WW1, when rising wages and social mobility made service unattractive, and it wasn't until after WW2 when only the very wealthy would retain servants.
@Luxitos it's more the opposite. Far more of those servants became middle class - i.e. they found better jobs that paid better. It also coincided with the invention of many labour saving devices, like vacuum cleaners and washing machines, so the expense of having staff to do these chores became prohibitive now that a cheaper alternatives existed. Service was a hard life with many rules that was unable to keep up with the liberalisation of society, so people gave up on it. Since the profession was so decentralised, it would have been very difficult to enact reform as had happened for unionised trades.
Conspicuous consumption in all its American vulgarity. That’s the difference between European nobility (who wouldn’t dream of behaving with such bad taste) and rich American tradesmen.
Yes but some of the cash poor European nobility with their “good taste” had an appetite for the cash princess heiresses of those “vulgar” American tradesmen from American high society.
@@tonybuc67 Yes indeed. At the time they were called the ‘Dollar Princesses.’ If you look at issues of Punch Magazine from this period there are a myriad of cartoons making tremendous fun of the fact that the nobility had swallowed their pride and married these rich Americans, who were devoid of noble blood because they were desperate for the money to prop up their vast ailing estates, and mocking the vulgarity of the ‘Dollar Princesses.’ It’s all good fun.
I agree. I don’t blame the Old Society for thinking that way as well considering they were raised on the English or Dutch aesthetics which are more subdued (I mean compare Downton Abbey for instance with its warm wood and subdued colors)
How Really crass and pretentious this age of was. Not to mention highly hypocritical,Bigoted, and BORING! No wonder we had a Depression with these callous Superficial group.thinkimg they.were so Real and Grand.
yes, I agree, pretentious is right. They had the most stupidest rules back in the day. All snobby and worried about the silliest things that we would never think of on today's age. Of course I do enjoy every minute of the show and cant wait for the next season to start.
