Is it true that Victorian era British prudishness was a reaction to the previous era "lewdness"?
I read previous it used to be common for women to wear dresses with cleavage showing and non penetrative sex between unmarried couples was common place.
Is it true that Victorian era British prudishness was a reaction to the previous era "lewdness"?
Charles White
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David Clark
Also was the Prudish mostly a British thing or did it expand to other western countries?
Jonathan Murphy
Yea Regency Period was all about the king/aristocracy getting drunk, divorcing, and partying, and the fashion was flamboyant for both sexes
Jaxon Lopez
Victorianism was the worse thing that ever happened to British fashion. The Regency period harkens to the Greeks, so you know it was great.
Brayden Jackson
I wish Victorian fashion would come back, I'm tired of sexy we need more femininity and modesty.
Austin Barnes
Femininity is unrelated to sex appeal? Sounds like a christian concept or something.
Jack Scott
There is sexality in modesty too
Nathan Perry
In that I'd like to rip off her dress, maybe.
Landon Perez
I'm interested on this too.
Benjamin Ortiz
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Brayden Taylor
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Justin Brown
Similarly, I've read that (in the U.S.) the "wholesomeness" of the mid-'30s to the mid-'60s (which peaked in the 1950s) was a reaction against the perceived degeneracy of the previous era (which was apparently quite lewd for its time)
Robert Brooks
I looked up some old French fashion drawings from the era and there seemed to be less cleavage and more high collars but that's all I got. Nothing scholarly lads.
Adam Williams
Yeah. Also the 50s in particular was a huge attempt to normalize the war generation.
You had boatloads of men in their 20s who had only known war and/or Japanese hookers for the last few years coming home.
Thomas Lee
god this thread is pure cancer
the level of generalization, the sheer truncation of data, is just beyond sanity
Jack Turner
How common were live in maids that wore qt uniforms?
Connor Jenkins
Enlighten us, enlightened one
Eli Campbell
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Dominic Ortiz
Well no not really, dressing modestly is explicitly NOT sexy. That's the whole point.
Connor Walker
sexuality's pretty complicated and doesn't really have to make sense
Owen Hernandez
>The Christmas Dessert
The pudding or the maid?
Landon Morales
modesty is literally the opposite of sexuality/sensuality
Carson Lopez
>dressing modestly is explicitly NOT sexy
It's the implicit that some crave for.
t. muslim with hijab fetish
Carson Perez
>he doesn't want elegant victorian clothing back in style.
Jace Davis
Post Victorian maids
Juan James
In the Victorian/Edwardian era?
Depends upon your wealth. For some classes it was common to have a number of households servants. In the early 1900s something in the region of one million British women were employed in domestic work.
Dominic Gray
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Isaiah Turner
>there will never be a BBC drama of cute teen housekeepers doing cute teen housekeeper things
a right bloody travesty it is, ain't it guv?
Juan Mitchell
Why were the maid uniforms so CUTE!?
Michael Cruz
CUTE
Gavin Cook
Most higher class areas would have maids dressed like that. What about the lower class ones?
Grayson Ortiz
The uniforms may be cute but the women inside of them look "10/10 in Bongistan" tier.
Hunter Baker
>What about the lower class ones?
>maids
Leo Allen
>Also was the Prudish mostly a British thing or did it expand to other western countries?
Well?
Jace Lopez
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Cameron Peterson
>le classy clothes *tips federeh xD*
yeah fuck off girls should be not only allowed but in fact encouraged to show some skin show those tits you fucking slut I don't live in some muslim fucking sandland to look at bitches dressed in black bullshit
Evan Baker
Word
Sebastian Mitchell
From what I've read the Americans were actually even more prudish at the time, I think because they were more religious. There's a story about them covering the legs of their furniture for decency, which while probably not true,m shows the stereotypes that existed.
Noah Stewart
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Sebastian Wood
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Owen Reyes
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Cameron Turner
>le victorians were prudish and didn't know how to have fun meme
That was mostly a British thing, and even then they still had fun (albiet Family Friendly) entertainment.
Liam Smith
Yes, most American cities had legalized red districts and whorehouses around the turn of the century. Progressivism put an end to that.