ENGL 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Satin
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Era before elastics, needed belts to keep stockings up, usually a piece of cloth. 18th century men/women shoes were the same, but men"s shoes had higher heels so they. No differences between left and right shoes, the left and right shoes invented in the 19th could appear taller and more imposing century for higher consumer rates. Women"s clothes were all fastened by ties until the 19th century as buttons were for men only. Men: men"s hair was worn in ringlets in the beginning until it got shorter and shorter clothing used to be covered in lace and ribbons; clothing would be considered pretty/feminine by today"s standards. Stomachers from the elizabethan times (a long strip in the front of your dress going from your chest down to past your crotch: ribbons were worn in long, ringleted hair.