According to Kathryn Hughes in The middle classes: etiquette and upward mobility, since women, unlike men, could not draw social status from their jobs, and doing housework was discouraged (middle class families were expected to have a maid or several specialised servants), the middle-class wife was to function as a walking billboard for her husbands material success. This article will focus on the changes in female fashion during the Victorian era
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