What Do You Miss from the 1840's?

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1- Lack of electrical bills.
2- 4 and 6 hp transportation that got you there without gasoline.
3- My cloisonné chamber pot.
4- Servants.
5- Silk dresses with big skirts
6- No crowds protesting over the deployment of troops to Afghanistan.
7- No Iraq.
8- No Iran, either.
9- No problems with nuclear proliferation.
10- Few, if any crime scene investigators; and those that are around are hopelessly inept.
11- Conversations about zombies make people faint and not yawn.
12- Sunlight.
 

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Pure spring water w/o the packaging.
 

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1. Corsets and crinolines
2. My barouche
3. Men in breeches
4. No television, we just sat up and read by candlelight each evening
5. That whole "Hey kids, let's take the Oregon Trail this summer!"
 

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Corsets.

Oh, wait, no. Don't miss them. Stays suck.

Oh, they're not bad if you use the whalebone ones, or better yet, the faux-bone. It's the steel ones that'll jab an extra hole in your boobage.

Corsets give you great posture, and they make your rack look spectacular.
 

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How much did milk cost in the 1840's? That's what I miss. And the bread too. Everything. That didn't cost $6.
 

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I'd like to say the values but they may have been just as corrupt.
 

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Memorial photos.

Paid companions.

Poisoning one's husband (Whatever happened to that? In the old days, you couldn't move without tripping over some bird who'd put rat poison in hubby's night-time posset. Sigh - women today, eh?)

Gentlemen callers.

Smelling salts. Swooning.

Blokes having to state their intentions before they even got a snog (unless you were the under-house parlourmaid, in which case they sweet-talked you into bed, got you pregnant and then did a runner, leaving you to desolation and ruin)

Newgate Prison

Children being seen and not heard

Attics, not lofts

The mad maiden auntie therein

Laudanum

Freak shows

Cads being horse-whipped by angry fathers

Bloomers

Younger sons being sent abroad in disgrace

Decanters

Proper prams, the kind that wouldn't even fit in most hallways now

Those scary dolls

Rocking-horses
 
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Oh, they're not bad if you use the whalebone ones, or better yet, the faux-bone. It's the steel ones that'll jab an extra hole in your boobage.

Corsets give you great posture, and they make your rack look spectacular.


I have a steel one. It sucks. But it does give me a great rack. My boobs come into the room three minutes before me :D

I have a Ren Faire dress with plastic boning in the back, and it is supportive, posture-wise.

I just hate the idea of squashing my internal organs all around for it.


Oh, yanno what eles I miss? Shoes with buttons. BUTTONS!
 

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Elegant dinner parties and women with parasols. Genteelnees and honest hospitality.

Of course, I don't miss things like cholera, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, TB outbreaks and bad dental hygiene.

Rosemerry, I HAVE an Elizabethan corset. Nightmare. Of course I don't think it was fitted properly.
 

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Some of these are lovely too:

http://www.fashion-era.com/images/Coats/victmantfur450x50.jpg

Oh, and top hats! I went grunge-spelunking at a thrift store and found a ratty old top hat, probably from someone's halloweenery, but it's really cool. I'm going to re-cover it and add some ribbons. Hopefully I won't come out looking like Willy Wonka or Pete Doherty.
 
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