Living In The Past

OK, you can stop the pile on. I’ve got the message.

I don't much like frocks anyway!

Thank goodness for our (relative) freedom and today's medicines.

Exactly callistemon, and many women were stuck in dreadful, possibly violent marriages as they did not wish to be separated from their children. High price to pay for a few nice frocks!

Everything that you own, even inherited from your father, would belong to your husband!

No thanks

I do like Edwardian clothes, but despite the luxury of having a maid to sort out my clothes, and a cook and housekeeper to see to all the boring cooking and shopping and such, I don't think I fancy living in an unheated house and being a dependent female. The thought of using a china pot and then having a maid take it away in the morning is enough to make me constipated! I always thought my grandmother looked glamorous in the very few photos of her in the 1920s but I do know the reality for her was very different with very little money and no opportunity to do anything other than accept her lot.

Me too, petra

But as long as I could come back after a peek if I didn't like it and as long as I didn't have to wear a whalebone corset

I've never been one to look back. Always forward is the way I think. If anywhere I would love to be transported forward.
My thinking has nothing to do with what's going on in the world today. This is a mere blip in the big scheme of things.

I would love to have lived in Jane Austin's world. Rich, of course! Beautiful dresses, exotic hair styles and a day filled with a little light reading or needlework, maybe followed with a stroll around the garden. Dead heading a few roses if I was feeling energetic. Meals cooked for me and a little bell to ring if I fancied a cup of tea and, maybe, a delicate, crustless cucumber sandwich.
A handsome beau to take me out for a little walk - I'd be beautiful, of course.
Oh, Yes that's the life I wish I had had

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Living in the Past? I do every day. But like Charleygirl5, I like today's modcons too. All our wardrobe of clothes were in fashion during the late 30's into the 40's. I drive a 1937 car, we have a Bakerlite phone and so much more.

We cherry pick that which we prefer, but getting some of the fashions from that era does get expensive. For example, you see the shoes in the black & white photo, just try to see if you can buy them anywhere.

I too will stay where I am thank you, even with all that’s going on I still feel blessed to have been born in this generation...

During the reign of Henry V111 as a wealthy courtier of course.

I would have to say Stone Age -and hope to hang out with Fred Flintstone and co.

Yes the Victorian era if you were wealthy!

I think life would be fine in the Edwardian/Victorian eras if one was wealthy - otherwise we’d be up chimneys, down pits or in factories, working all hours for a pittance.

I too will stick to mod cons, but wouldn’t mind knocking 15 years off my age!!

Sorry Blossoming but I will stay where I am- I like my mod cons- hot running water, showers, clean clothes daily and a working washing machine. What would it have been like then, no deodorants and everybody smelling?