Clothing in nineteenth ... aimed at middle-class women. Chemistry democratized previously expensive imported animal and mineral dyes forever, as suggested by the Victorian slang term “Totty- ...

Anne Sykes’s collection of fabric remnants, lovingly preserved in an album, documents not merely her life but the Victorian era ... to a rising middle class, “dress had grown increasingly ...

Family budget evidence suggests that around 30-40 per cent of women from working class ... Victorian home. Smaller museums yield information and evidence of women's work and their patterns of ...