victorian

It is not just from the current age either, in victorian times women wore corsets that made them faint.

beauty nathreee 2010

How could it be possible, if including world wide communications are doing in victorian's language, english (nor french, egyptian, zulu or inca)?

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P.S. you were the one using the 'victorian' term ... respectable women.

Obama Spokesman Denies Michelle's Speech Was Attack On Hillary 2009

A kind of victorian primness to balance the free-market, free-speech attitude that has been enshrined in law.

stupid idea mikandra 2008

Try finding a straight cut pure fabric non-stretch blouse or overshirt and you'll be looking for a month of Sundays!! however, in australia, in the country towns and regional centres there's usually one excellent modest clothierre who is perhaps country or 'victorian' inspired but whose clothes are suitable for all occasions. it doesn't make sense to me why they don't open outlets in the large city shopping malls; the price they would pay in rent would be more than made up for by the massive turnover they'd make as women, finally having found a decent retail outlet, would buy the shop out completely in the first week!!

What Women Are Saying About Clothing Today 2009

It emphasizes competition in a discussion of Darwin, victorian morals, and modern attitudes toward morality.

Becker on Polygamy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

A friend who does victorian reenactment loves her very accurate victorian one too.

When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists 2009

Oddly enough, I was considering this as something between the afterglowy fantasy-victorian whitewash of steampunk and the more pessimistic "dieselpunk".

"It kicks like a sleep twitch..." greygirlbeast 2010

Historical context of victorian literature was at the time of colonial adventure, national identities and industrialization in Europe.

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But could it propose another principles of life (social codes, way of life, spirituality, etc) in a whole world quasi conquered by victorian principles?

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