There were no sewing machines until towards the end of the Victorian era; no mass-production techniques, no way at all of making cheap clothes. If you were rich, you had a tailor make you a suit, or a frock, or whatever; and this you wore until it was beginning to show the dirt, at which stage it would be discarded because, of course, fine outer garments could not be washed without spoiling them.
Shirts and shifts and chemises and other unmentionables, of course, could be washed, and were; so they could be worn until they showed signs of wear, and then discarded.
The discarded clothes were usually given to the servants, who would wear them until they reached the next stage of decay and then - this is the important bit - sell them. Good second-hand clothes commanded quite high prices - remember Fagin's boys picking pockets and risking the gallows just for handkerchiefs - and would be worn with a certain amount of pride by the better-off of the working class. Then they would go back to the old-clothes shop and gradually work their way down the social scale. A street urchin would wear clothes which had got to the stage of possessing no value at all.
Old trousers, then; an old coat, usually too big, because clothes made expressly for children would be passed down within families rather than placed on the open market; some sort of shirt. If shoes (which were rare), then certainly no socks; in winter the feet would be wrapped in rags, which also served to make the ninth-hand shoes fit small feet. No underwear. The clothes not washed except by the rain, and worn until they literally fell to pieces, when they were - not discarded, but made up into bundles to be sold to the shoddy-merchant. The shoddy mill would turn old woolens into felt, old cotton and linen into paper
Our modern ideas of recycling are pitiful compared to Victorian practices!
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Poor Victorian people wore rags and clothes that had been thrown out by rich people. They had tatty clothes.
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Poor Victorian women would usually wear either something they made themselves or something they could afford. They usually only ever wore one thing as their other dress would be for special occasions.
Rags for poor children and for the rich fine an exopensive clothes, boys (rich) use to dress like girls
An interesting question, girls were classed as a woman when engaged, so I suspect then you would start wearing your hair up.
Queen Victoria's children married on the year 10 because she and her children are ancient
Children started working in a factory from a very young age. They were paid very little and sometimes nothing at all. The conditions were poor and the work dangerous. There were many cases where children lost fingers, limbs and even lives
There was no set age..it was up to the parents...but mostly about 12, when they were considered slightly adult
No, Victorian women did not wear fascinators. They wore bonnets or elaborate hats, depending on the particular period (early or late Victorian age).Please see the picture linked below for an illustration of the evolution of Victorian fashion: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/1794-1887-Fashion-overview-Alfred-Roller.GIF
The poor children in Victorian times did not have many types of food to eat. They mostly age stale bread, potato peelings, and scraps.
they had to go to school or they went to work to sweep chimnys
action figures ................well maybe
some victorian childrens started working for the age of four
Victorian children started school around the age of six or seven. They were likely taught at home by a governess and then later a tutor and teacher.
An interesting question, girls were classed as a woman when engaged, so I suspect then you would start wearing your hair up.
The age of 5
Queen Victoria's children married on the year 10 because she and her children are ancient
Well doooh. They ate food. What else?
Victorian teachers were not nice at all they were allowed to whip very young children even at the age of 5.
Victorian people dressed appropiatley to their age,and position to society.
Many died before the age of 5, those surviving would live to an average of 40 years. A quarter of the population lived in poverty