Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

I've already talked about what men of the 1860s wore over their clothing in cold or inclement weather, but what did the ladies wear? Wom...

One of the strongest influencers of Victorian trends and fashion was Eugenie, the Empress of France. What does a French empress have to do ...

“Built to reduce pedestrian traffic jams, its construction in the 'seventies was considered as a miracle of engineering.” The 1870s , of...

One of the most popular forms of birth control during the Victorian Period is still popular today—the condom—originally invented to protect ...

Another real-life heroine I based my fictional heroine, Cassidy Stuart, on in my novel, Under the Guns, was Louisa May Alcott, author of Lit...

Coats Most Victorian gentlemen owned four different types of coat to fit every occasion. These consisted of the business coat, frock coat, d...

Telltale Embroidery Embroidery experienced a revival (along with anything else Elizabethan) during Victoria’s reign. Authors writing about ...

Victorian Menswear Trousers of the mid-nineteenth century Men's trousers of the mid-nineteenth century weren't much different from m...

When we think of the Victorian period, we probably don’t consider birth control. Surely this was not a part of Victorian life, right? Wron...

Victorian Menswear Shirts & Undergarments of the mid-nineteenth century What men wore in the mid-nineteenth century wasn't that much...

Victorians found the sonorous notes of guitars and their accompanying wailing love songs to be especially endearing during moonlit forays or...

I researched Dr. Mary Walker years ago and used her along with a few other Victorian women whose stories I admired as a composite for my fic...

WELCOME to a new series on the Tycoons, the fascinating men who created today's corporate world. Their heyday matched Victoria's rei...

Just as we wear different outfits to the office, a night on the town, exercise, shopping or working or lounging around the house, the Victor...

Oh, wait…what do you mean it isn’t part of the Food Pyramid? Are you sure? That has to be an oversight! Sacrilege! Blasphemy! Oh the horror!...

Mourning Rituals and Customs in the Victorian Era* Death is a subject most of us don’t like to think about or even talk about, but Victorian...

So you think the Victorians were prudish, uptight people in high-necked clothing, huh? Well I suppose at certain times during the period, a...

It's the end of the world, as we know it... [REM, Its the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)] On Wednesday night, at 2 mi...

Oh wow. I meant to do a blog on the Victorian Free Love movement, which started before the Civil War and lasted through the '70's. ...

Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president, in 1872, almost 50 years before the nineteenth amendment guaranteed women the ri...