Lady and Dandy in the victorian era

victorian era

Summary

1. What's a Dandy ?

a)Dandy requirements/the

b)A day in the life of a dandy

2. What's a Lady ?

a)The roles and rights of a

b)Lady requirements/the style

Origins:

1. What's a Dandy ?

• Appeared in London
• The word "Dandy" emerges in the 1780s
• Of young men adopt a deliberately eccentric style on mass days
• Sign of a romantic era and dechristianization of morals

• Craving for a non-conformist identity
• In the 1810s
• The youth of the upper bourgeois class completely took over this style
• Against the current of the classical order
• Extinction with the arrival of the industrial revolution + jeans

Great Dandys of the Victorian era:

A young man belonging to a group of high society and whose refinement testifies to a nonconformism and an ethical research, based on contempt for social conventions and bourgeois morality. He is elegant, refined and he loves fashion. However, being a dandy is not only a style but also a way of life.

Definition:

a) Dandy requirements/the style

• Cylinder hat

• Knitted scarves
• The bright veste
• Tail-coat
• Gloves
• Cane with very original knobs
  
• Trousers
  
• Buckle shoe
  

b) A day in the life of a dandy

Activites:

• Go out
• Walk
• Meet people
• Make himself known and recognized
• Read books
• Or courting women
  

Definition:

Today, the term “lady” is often used as a civil term of respect for a woman, as is “gentleman” for a man. But there was a time when its purpose was to address women of high social class or status.

2. What's a Lady ?

Roles:

• Limited to childbearing and housewife
• Instruct the servants on what is to be done
  
• Groom younger girls of the same class to become women

a) The roles and rights of a lady

Rights:

• Had the right to make tea parties
  
• Had the right to play balls
• Had the right to knit

• Had the right to ride horses
  
• Had the right to several servants who took either of them

• Had the right to read books
• Had the right to write letters
• Had the right to sew
  
• Had the right to receive the guests
• Had the right to supervise the servants
  
• Had the right to organized parties and auctions to collect charity for some cause
  
• Had the right to study and made a career in the male-dominated field.

b) Lady requirements/ the style

• A hat,
• A very tight corset
• A shirt
• A jacket
• Jewellery
• A skirt
• Gloves
• (An umbrella)
  
• Shoes

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