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Why did people have to have curtains around their beds in the Victorian era?
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∙ 9y ago
Curtains were placed around beds to keep cold drafts of air from blowing across the sleeping people -- that helped folks stay warm during the night. None of those homes/houses were anywhere near air-tight and they had no insullation in the walls. The houses had no central heating as we know it, and they would let the coal in the fireplace (or stove) burn out in the evening. (That was to save money.)
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Rayne Dewey
according to Quora Night air was believed to be unhealthy, so the beds had both a cover and side curtains to keep out diseases of the night. However, by the 1800s, canopies kept out insects but not air. Eventually the side curtains were removed except in tropical areas with massive bug problems.
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