Posted on 12/09/2018 5:28:28 AM PST by C19fan
Black mourning clothes worn by Queen Victoria following the death of her husband have been discovered 150 years later - by the family of one of her servants who 'took them as mementos'. The three black bodices, which formed the top half of her famous two-piece mourning dresses, were worn by the 4ft 8in monarch in the 1860s and '70s after Prince Albert's untimely death in 1861. The auctioneers say it is uncommon to find items from earlier in the monarch's life, with most of it coming from her last decade in the 1890s. They are much smaller than outfits she wore later on in life, when her bust and waist had ballooned to 48ins.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Dolly Parton is about five & a half feet tall - lying on her back.
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Bad, bad, bad. Time out for you.!! Bad !
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Peach
Sounds like much of my extended family living in MN.
Me bad
She was short and stout, as they used to say. A plump figure was most desirable to men of the day.
Victoria was not petite.
I didn’t build that! The tabloids used to say the same thing about Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida.
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You could call them Victoria’s secret.
You win the Internet for the day!
Was she the only woman in England who wore that size clothing? No.
Are there pictures? No.
That price may be cheap for the Queen's corset, but too much for a nameless street urchin's.
When you realize who runs the fashion industry (it's not the models), this sadly makes sense.
"I'm a little teapot..."
After having 9 children.
What does it matter what her waist size was?
These bodices are of interest because they were the early years she was in mourning. Most items of her clothing that have survived are from the later years and were much larger.
Victoria is a long standing interest of mine, I recently read this book
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1781256837/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
and think that after Albert died, she ate to comfort herself over his loss. many people today may relate.
The eyessssss ... they burnssss ussssssss...
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