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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 handkerchieves - 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 woollens into felt, old cotton and linen into paper
Our modern ideas of recycling are pitiful compared to Victorian p;ractices!
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What clothes did the poor children wear in the Victorian times?
poor children wore simple and rather uncomfortable clothes that would hurt and be really dull!!!
Was a spinning top used by a rich Victorian or a poor Victorian?
yes it is used by rich and poor children from the Victorian times
What did the poor Victorian baby's wear?
nothing. the babies were too poor.
What food did the Poor Victorian school children have for lunch?
The Victorian poor school children had Rat's vegetables,apple if lucky and other horrible food.
What did the poor people wear in the Victorian time?
ragged clothes
What did victorian children wear rich and poor?
clothes hhshshfhshhfds
What did poor Victorian children wear when they worked in coal mines?
top and trousers
What clothes did Victorian children wear if they were poor?
dirty clothes that are ripped and torn
What did the poor children in the Victorian times wear?
poor children wore simple and rather uncomfortable clothes that would hurt and be really dull!!!
What clothes did the poor children wear in the Victorian times?
poor children wore simple and rather uncomfortable clothes that would hurt and be really dull!!!
Was a spinning top used by a rich Victorian or a poor Victorian?
yes it is used by rich and poor children from the Victorian times
What did Victorian poor boys wear?
poor Victorian children would wear rags and if they were lucky a dress made of cotton to keep them warm
What did the poor Victorian baby's wear?
nothing. the babies were too poor.
What jobs did rich Victorian children do?
Rich Victorian children often had an opportunity not afforded to poor children. They often received an education while poor children worked in the factories.
Would poor Victorian children wear shoes?
sometimes... usually poor Victorian families would have ONE pair of shoes which the whole family would wear E.G. they would take it in turns. If they did have a pair of their own shoes they would most probably home made.
What special events were there that were important to poor Victorian children?
schools because rich Victorian children were more likely to get in than the poor but some poor got into schools anyway
What did the Victorian children did?
they worked- poor children went to school- rich children
