18th and 19th Century Attitudes Towards Women

Women's attitudes in the 18th and 19th centuries can be quickly concluded from the authors of both sources, that they are all related to middle class women. A woman of the working class does not have education and therefore has not purchased "Domestic Economics Magazine", so it can not read or write completely. For Florence Nightingale to write a diary, this requires a middle class growth experience. As "Light and Women" sued many injured soldiers in the Crimean War, with the ability to see hindsight, we know that Florence Nightingale is a very unusual woman.

In the 19th century, in addition to cotton shirts, men's clothing consisted of three parts. In the 18th century I was wearing knee-length trousers, but in the 19th century men wore trousers. They are also wearing vests and jackets. In the early nineteenth century, women were wearing thin clothes. In the 1830's they inflated their sleeves. In the 1950s they put whales and wire ropes under the skirts. In the late 1860s, women started to wear shackles. The front of the skirt is flat but it protrudes outward on the back. This is called Banjo, it disappeared in the 1890s. Since the 1840's, women wearing very small waist are very fashionable, so they are wearing corsets. At the same time, about 1,800 women started to wear shorts. At first it was called a withdrawal. Initially, the woman was wearing two drawers. In the UK in the late nineteenth century, drawers for women were called knickerbockers and then called shorts.

Women's clothes of the 18th century are basically the same as before. In the 18th century, both men and women wore wigs. Women are wearing clothes (clothes with whales) and hoops under clothes. Fashion women carry folding fans. Fashion is very important for rich people, but the attire of poor people is almost unchanged. In the early nineteenth century, women were wearing thin clothes. In the 1830's they inflated their sleeves. In the 1950s they put whales and wire ropes under the skirts. In the late 1860s, Victorian women started to wear semi-liners. The front of the skirt is flat but bulging outward on the back. This is called Banjo, it disappeared in the 1890s.