- The Victorian era was a time of prosperity, broad imperial expansion, and great political reform. It was also a time, what we associate now is, "prudishness" and "repression". With no doubt, it was an extraordinarily complex age, that has sometimes been called the Second English Renaissance. It is, however, also the beginning of Modern Times.
- The social classes of England were newly reforming. There was a change of the old hierarchical order, and the middle classes were steadily growing.The upper classes' composition was changing from simply hereditary aristocracy to a combination of nobility and an emerging wealthy commercial class.
-The Victorian Era was a time of scientific progress and ideas. Darwin took his Voyage of the Beagle, and created the Theory of Evolution. The Great Exhibition of 1851 took place in London. The strides in medicine and the physical sciences continued throughout the century. The thought associated with modern psychiatry began with men like Sigmund Feud toward the end of the era, and radical economic theory, developed by Karl Marx and his associates, began a second age of revolution in mid-century. The ideas of Marxism, socialism, feminism churned along with all else that happened during the era.
- For clothes that was worn during the time period, women wore corsets, balloonish sleeves and crinolines in the middle 1840's. The crinoline became popular and expanded during the 50's to 70's, until, it gave way to the bustle became popular as well. The bustle stayed popular in 1890's, and became much smaller, until it started to disapate out altogether by the dawning of the twentieth century. For men, stove-pipe pants were the fashion at the beginning of the century. Their ties, known then as cravats, change the styles of shirts, jackets, and hats. Throughout the century, it was stylish for men to wear facial hair of all sizes and descriptions. The mustaches, mutton-chop sideburns, Piccadilly Weepers, full beards, and Van Dykes were the more fashion sense at the time.
-The Victorian Era was a time of scientific progress and ideas. Darwin took his Voyage of the Beagle, and created the Theory of Evolution. The Great Exhibition of 1851 took place in London. The strides in medicine and the physical sciences continued throughout the century. The thought associated with modern psychiatry began with men like Sigmund Feud toward the end of the era, and radical economic theory, developed by Karl Marx and his associates, began a second age of revolution in mid-century. The ideas of Marxism, socialism, feminism churned along with all else that happened during the era.
- For clothes that was worn during the time period, women wore corsets, balloonish sleeves and crinolines in the middle 1840's. The crinoline became popular and expanded during the 50's to 70's, until, it gave way to the bustle became popular as well. The bustle stayed popular in 1890's, and became much smaller, until it started to disapate out altogether by the dawning of the twentieth century. For men, stove-pipe pants were the fashion at the beginning of the century. Their ties, known then as cravats, change the styles of shirts, jackets, and hats. Throughout the century, it was stylish for men to wear facial hair of all sizes and descriptions. The mustaches, mutton-chop sideburns, Piccadilly Weepers, full beards, and Van Dykes were the more fashion sense at the time.
