http://www.salon.com/2013/12/01/what_its_like_to_wear_victorian_corsets_and_underwear_today/

Here's a gal who thinks she would like to live as they did in Victorian age , specifically ,1889. Mostly because of the women's fashion. As she thinks it's cool to wear corsets and crotchless pantalettes.

That may be fine but to live as they did in 1889 means some severe changes in life style.

Horses every where. Which means horse crap every where
No air conditioning
Very limited electricity
Heating with wood or coal or heating oil
Cooking with same.
No refrigerator. They did have ice boxes. Which required one to get large blocks of ice to put in an insulated box. One had to get the ice from a ice factory or shag the ice man who made regular routes through the streets
Doing laundry by wash board and hanging it on a line.
Cooking was a day long activity
Limited telephone also
And no plastic products. One forgets how much we rely on plastic.

Dave

Yeah, and no OS X, either!

IMHO no air conditioning would be a good thing. Taking hot air from inside and putting it outside while at the same time heating up the outside even more--doesn't seem very world-friendly to me.

I know that would mean that the sunbelt would be depopulated.

Not to mention... antibiotics, vaccines...

they're ignorant to how many people died from routine diseases we totally dismiss today..
I'm not talking plague... I mean staph infections, pneumonias, water and food brone diseases like typhoid fever, cholera, ...
Look at this list:
Cholera:
President Polk -1849
Tchaikovsky - 1893
Jim Bowie’s Mexican wife, 2 children - 1833 - he ended up at the Alamo because of this
Typhoid Fever:
Pericles 426 BC
Franz Shubert -1828
British prince consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - 1861 - aka Prince Albert
William Wallace Lincoln - 1862. (Mary had TF but survived).
Leland Stanford, Jr. son of Leland Stanford - founded Univ.
Wilbur Wright -1912
Sen Stephen A. Douglas of the Lincoln Douglas debates -1861
Typhus:
Plague of Athens 430 BC.
1812- (30%) of Napoleon’s army retreating from Moscow. More than were killed in battle.
1918-1922 epidemic killed 3 million of 20-30 million cases.
1941 struck German army as they invaded Russia.
1945 - epidemic in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp killed Anne Frank and her sister Margot.

AND this isn't a complete list of famous people !! I could go on but you get the idea.

I grew up here without AC. It was nice not having wall to wall people here.

Edit: I'm going to have to look at that Replies thread up there. I meant to reply to yoyo.

Let's not leave out Jack The Ripper & Dracula!

Yep, I plumb forgot the medical side of it which is vast improvement.

Dave

i grew up in the Caribbean and then in Miami. No AC. It was ok--and not crowds all over the place.

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No air condition when I was a kid either. We just sweat-ed and stank! Actually, we were forced to sit on the screened in porch each evening and visit with folks walking by and listened to radio shows. Lots of times we slept out there too.

If we slept in our rooms and beds we tried not to move around too much and to find a spot on the bed and pillow that was not wet with perspiration and maybe felt a little cool.

It was worse than he!! lots of the times.

Movies had big banners on the marquees saying "Air-conditioned Inside" and they drummed up business that way. We'd go and stay for hours.

Oh yes, we had sweat pads to wear so underarm perspiration didn't ruin a good dress. [They didn't work after getting soaked.]


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Right. I think she really hasn't thought this through. Of it's just the clothing then, there is very little stoping her from not wearing underwear at all, or wear the corset . Shucks, back in 2009, I wore a corset of such for about three months while the hole in my belly healed after a botched surgery.

I remember a few times I didn't wear underwear on the farm as a lad. And several pair of my underwear had enough holes in them to qualify as being "no underwear".

Air conditioning? What was that?
Dave