They Really Miss the Old Days
Dissecting the Dream of the 1890s: Chrisman extols the virtues of switching over to clothing and technology from the 1880s and 1890s, as she and her husband, Gabriel, have. Sarah originally wrote the book, her third, in script with a fountain pen.
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She wears a corset 24/7. I can't get over that. They sound like quite an unusual pair.
How's she feel about the sanitation systems and the absence of antibiotics? The recurrent cholera? The worldwide influenza pandemics? The absolutely awful standard of living of the "average" income family in the US, let alone the poor? Let alone the truly poor in truly poor countries? I have little patience for the romanticism of most parts of the past.
I wrote that before I read the piece, and now I'm even less amused. They are *playing* at Victoriana, keeping the things they like from the present, and pretending that's living in a Victorian world. Hypocrites.
It's just not as fun without the enormous clouds of coal dust.
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