The Victorians wore HOW many clothes in a day??? 😱 

No central heating, single glazed windows. Homes were not as warm & comfortable.

In addition to what the other commenter said, they also used natural fibers for clothing. Natural fibers breath so much better than synthetic. They are really great at keeping you warm in cool weather and cool in the heat. I’ll be totally fine wearing my wool skirts in the middle of summer, but my sheer polyester blouses make me so sweaty.

​@_Emily_Moore_ I dunno about that, things like wool are super uncomfortable in even mild weather

@@beyondbackwater4933 Super thick wool is obviously not going to feel the nicest, but lightweight wools are really great for summer. Lightweight wool keeps you cool and dry in the summer and it is odor resistant. If you have a wool blend (wool thats blended with some sort of synthetic fiber) it won't be as breathable or as great in the summer heat as 100% wool.

@@ornithartsYou see, I’ve always heard this but I find it very hard to believe. Try going out in a 100% cotton T-shirt in the middle of summer, doesn’t do as much as you might think

lol

I wake up in pajamas, change to work clothes, and then back to pajamas when I am home for the night lol

Just with less/thinner layers I suppose.

i wear the same thing all day...

Or you wake up in sweats bc you don’t have time for fancy pajamas (no offense intended, if you wear cute pajamas to bed, more power to you! 😊), then continue to wear sweats for breakfast (if you have time for it, sometimes it’s just shoving a granola bar into your mouth practically whole and chugging some juice or water to wash it down), usually already in my work clothes at that point, because I only use my bathrobe for, well, bathing. Then, if you’re me, unless you’re already in your work clothes, you put them on and go to work in scrubs, which are extremely comfortable and quite comparable to sweats in my opinion, and then change into sweats again when you get home (if you get home that night, sometimes you have to stay longer) So some of us are “sweats all day” kind of people lol

I understood that reference.

No 1 can imagine Victorian women using "y'all" Maybe you can 🍗

​@@johnbrooks624310 demerits for not getting the reference😂

But where's the brolly?

Hell yeah he’s cool!

I can't imagine what the underwear looked like then 😂. Prob a button up just like her jacket

@@OnlyNolesknow Probably like burlesque shows and Wild West "hoar" houses. Or maybe Mormon underwear.

Teagowns, even, are a late 1860s to 1890s thing. The closest I can see to a tea gown before then are examples of "seaside evening dress" (dress meaning outfit, not the garment itself), which was long sleeved and made in a wrap style with a petticoat showing, and "fancy wrappers" for at home guests or invalids.

Not as long as tudor! 1462 to 1623 (I believe)

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Don't compare apples to oranges. Victoria was one person. Tudor was a House, many people. Victoria's House, the House of Hanover, reigned from 1714-1901. In the Tudor period, fashion was much more geographical and styles were determined by where you lived as well as social class, so fashion changed much, much more slowly and in different ways in different places.

@@oldasyouromens Really, I thought Victoria was a house.

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar she reigned longer than any English monarch before Elizabeth II, the most recent queen, and a lot of changes happened during her reign. That's why she gets a period of her own. The entire "Hanoverian Period" would include Georgian (1714-1795), Regency (1795-1837, though the actual regency was much shorter, from 1811-1820) and Victorian (1837-1901) periods - basically the entire Industrial Revolution. Victoria was one queen, and Victoria was her legal given name. She was named after her mother, Victoria of Saxe-Coburg.

their undergarments were also a barrier to prevent sweat and skin oils from dirtying their clothes, fully washing it would make the dyes leak as well so they did “maintenance” without water or without fully wetting it, that’s also why the undergarments are white, so they could be regularly washed and boiled, to keep the clothes touching their skin always clean

At middle class they'd also be employing servants too. So, they would have the ability to chooses what chores and cleaning they would be doing if their estate was too big for just their servants. Also, the Angel of the Household myth would also lead to a middle class lady probably doing less chore/cleaning than we might expect there too.

Same same!! I wanna see it too. ❤

Bernadette Banner and Rachel Maksey each made an episode on their youtubes about “secret pants”like ladies would wear to bicycle in

If I'm not mistaken, that's where bloomers came in from Amelia Bloomer, I think.

If you’re interested about that I suggest watching Kaz Rose’s history video on Victorian Women in Sports.

I think they were like capris but I'm not sure

And often the formal clothing is merely the newest clothing. As the clothes wear, they get demoted to errands wear, then house wear or sewn into something else (a quilt, childrens clothing) then eventually rags for cleaning or made into rag rugs. I have an ancestor that would collect rags from people and make rugs and sell them

@@internetopinion3043 absolutely. Clothes that were too tattered to wear or outgrown were also repurposed into patches for other clothes or worked into quilts. Heck, my mom even took worn out quilts, encased them in flannel and made thick blankets. I especially enjoy stories of how certain patterns of cloth used for flour sacks would be sought out to finish dresses or make more underwear.

You still can to some degree, depends on the area.

I mean you kind of can. But usually it’s based on brands like if somebody has Dior or Balenciaga then you can probably assume they are pretty wealthy versus like Walmart brand clothing

The more people have worn out clothes and stuff, the richer, today 😅

Being a wealthy heiress requires wealthy parents. Are you generally lucky in that way?

Me too!

i think thats more on luck than personality..

@@taxat10n1sth3ftmy mom and I have enough money to send me to fashion school, pay for essentials and buy things we want on occasional times. I can afford to buy materials for new gowns for my wardrobe but I can't afford a dressmaker to make them for me. I tend to make my own wardrobe pieces since I know they fit me.

Everyone wants to think they'd be a wealthy heiress instead of Employee of Station F at the canning factory. Generally speaking I don't think you'd want to be tied to whatever crimes against humanity come with inherited wealth in the 1800s

Today isn't about style. It's about comfort and how close you can get to showing titties without it becoming socially unacceptable.

Try wearing them till they fall apart, just as the poor did before 1800AD, give or take a few decades.

Having done aloooot of research I think it’s pretty spot on. They changed their clothes so much so they wouldn’t ruin their nicer more delicate indoor clothes by dragging them through the streets. Also keep in mind they would own like ONE or maybe two of each kind of outfit. So it sounds extravagant but it made sense at the time.