Historical romance authors were taught how to undress their Victorian heroines.

Learn how to dress like the Victorian gentleman of Sherlock Holmes books and movies.

Example of the fine workmanship found in women’s crafts throughout the nineteenth century.

Mourning goods were manufactured to order and graded first, second and third; every sigh with its peculiar tint, until at last the world observed that the days of sadness were past by the disappearance of the color of black and its various shades.