On The Middle And Upper Class Women's Fashion In Victorian England

This thesis chooses the Victorian women in middle and upper class as the object of study.The fashion culture in the presence of their daily life were studied.This thesis selects three aspects fashions with great influence in the Victorian era of women's lives:the dress fashion,the social fashion and the fashionable horticulturist.Specific dialysis the main contents and explain the social background,to examine the Victorian middle and upper class women's living condition.This thesis includes introduction,body and conclusion.The introduction introduces the origin and background of the topic,the significance of the topic,the research status at domestic field and abroad field,as well as the research methods and the main innovation points.The body part is divided into three chapters,the specific arrangements are as follows:The first chapter base on the angle of Victoria upper and middle class women's dress fashion culture.In the overview of early modern times women's dress,to analysis Victorian upper and middle class women in the women's clothing type and staging to sort out,and analysis the perceptual factors during this time.The corset underwear and the crinoline and bustle are the key equipments for fashioning female mainstream fashion dress,then show the Victorian upper and middle class women's beauty ideal.Under the social advocacy,mourning becomes the fashion among female.The second chapter from the perspective of social fashion noble women and middle-class women's social activities.The London Season is the main platform of noble women's social activities,provide an opportunity for the marriage of aristocratic women.The female elites of aristocracy elite social circles are the important link to strengthen mutual contact.The parlour is an important cultural field for the middle class women to play social fashion.The parlour is an important space for the middle class to show family wealth and social status.The middle class women play an important role which they are the executors for the parlour decoration,the managers of the parlour,and they are the key people undertake social activities.The parlour's music activities and tea parties are the main content of middle class female 's social fashion.Inspect the third chapter of the Victorian middle class women popular horticultural fashion.the gardening which becomes the fashion in the rise of the middle class.it has a suburbanization,the aesthetic emotion and environment factors.The suburb garden is the sign of the external set of household wealth and artistic taste for middle class family.The middle class women obtain gardening taste through gardening magazine for women which provides a reference guide.Middle class women is an active participant in the horticultural fashion,women's love of gardening and nature women empathy in crafting and poetic,of which can decorate the house as well as to cultivate the mind.In the conclusion part,respectively of Victorian women fashion,social fashion,horticultural fashion were summary and induction.The idea is that Victorian women's fashion culture is a cultural foundation for the next century of the new women's professional development.