These people love the Victorian era and live it, well except for having a website

[SAWYER]

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/9/9275611/victorian-era-life

I read the article and at the bottom is a link to their website and some of their books which have Kindle editions, lol

 

[lxskllr]

Looks fun. I wouldn't pick Victorian, and I'd do the "lite" edition, but I could do that.

 

[IronWing]

I was going to be a HistoricalSJW and post a pic of the kind of house most people would have lived in circa 1888 but I learned that, in fact, everybody did live in a fine home.

 

[lxskllr]

I was going to be a HistoricalSJW and post a pic of the kind of house most people would have lived in circa 1888 but I learned that, in fact, everybody did live in a fine home.

I like this one...

 

[Sonikku]

The article has a point; What they're doing isn't hurting anyone, yet they face scathing scrutiny for their lack of conformity.

 

[Exterous]

I wonder if they'll practice Victorian medicine when they get sick?

 

[Mike64]

I wonder if they'll practice Victorian medicine when they get sick?

Indeed.

I couldn't care less that they're doing it and see no reason to criticize them for doing so, other than to say that from what little the post/article says, it seems to me rather half-assed. Questions abound:

For starters, where are her corsets? Where are the poorly paid servants? Why is she baking the bread and using a hand egg-beater? What do they eat? Where do they buy their food? Are we to assume they eat nothing that isn't available seasonally and locally (unless they're living an "upper-middle class plus" "Victorian lifestyle", of course. (And if so, that can't be much fun...) Do they have "independent means", or does Gabriel work for their living? Did the job exist back then? Does she work outside the home? Doing what? Were their jobs among those relatively few that people of their apparent socio-economic status would have been caught dead doing? (She might be an authoress for example. Not much else springs immediately to mind.) Could they have supported their lifestyle in such jobs back then? Etc, etc...

 

[MongGrel]

I wouldn't do it myself.

But I know of a few retired engineers myself have model T's and stuff down here and do the steampunk type of thing on the side a bit.

I guess it's interesting for some people if you can afford it and just want to be different, more power to em.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Those folks are pretty modern. I'm more familiar with Buckskinners, civil war re-enactors and, my own SCA, 600 AD to 1600 AD.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

What's their view on sodomy?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

What's their view on sodomy?

Keep a stiff upper lip old chap.

 

[Spungo]

Where are the poorly paid servants?

You might be thinking of the wrong period. Poverty was very widespread in the victorian era. Most people did not have servants. This is also true of the American south. Most southern white people did not own slaves, just as most modern people do not have butlers or maids. The ones who have them tend to have a lot of them.

My old time thing is fountain pens. I have lots of them, and I use them all the time.

 

[DigDog]

What's their view on sodomy?

"Half of them think it's impossible, and half of them are doing it."

 

[IronWing]

I have 1880's doorknobs throughout the house and buy my dress shirts from an 1880's re-enactors store. I also have a windup clock and no teeth. I guess I'm good.

The last one is a bit more modern but I love posting pics of my knob.

 

[who?]

She appears to be wearing a corset under her dress.

 

[nakedfrog]

Indeed.

I couldn't care less that they're doing it and see no reason to criticize them for doing so, other than to say that from what little the post/article says, it seems to me rather half-assed. Questions abound:

For starters, where are her corsets? Where are the poorly paid servants? Why is she baking the bread and using a hand egg-beater? What do they eat? Where do they buy their food? Are we to assume they eat nothing that isn't available seasonally and locally (unless they're living an "upper-middle class plus" "Victorian lifestyle", of course. (And if so, that can't be much fun...) Do they have "independent means", or does Gabriel work for their living? Did the job exist back then? Does she work outside the home? Doing what? Were their jobs among those relatively few that people of their apparent socio-economic status would have been caught dead doing? (She might be an authoress for example. Not much else springs immediately to mind.) Could they have supported their lifestyle in such jobs back then? Etc, etc...

Who cares, and if so, why would they care? Why should they care?
I mean, you say you couldn't care less, see no reason to criticize then... then proceed to criticize them by saying they're doing it half-assed and poking a bunch of theoretical holes in the quirky way they're choosing to live that presumably doesn't hurt anyone, other than having to see someone that doesn't conform to societal norms.

 

[Sonikku]

I wonder if they'll practice Victorian medicine when they get sick?

Unfortunately, the FDA makes that impossible. :'( Gubnit outlawed miracle cures. You know, the ones with the REALLY awesome ingredients.

 

[Brovane]

Indeed.

For starters, where are her corsets?

A Corset is usually worn under clothing. She even wrote a book about wearing Corsets.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/victorian-secrets-sarah-a-chrisman/1114836057?ean=9781632206367

Their website might answer more of your questions.

http://www.thisvictorianlife.com/victorian-food.html

 

[Brovane]

She appears to be wearing a corset under her dress.

You think so......

Apparently it helped her loose weight.

 

[mmntech]

I wouldn't want to be a male child in the late Victorian era as there's a good chance you'd get hauled off the Flanders' Fields in a few years.

I was going to be a HistoricalSJW and post a pic of the kind of house most people would have lived in circa 1888 but I learned that, in fact, everybody did live in a fine home.

My favourite general era for architecture is from about 1890 to 1940. You go from traditional Victorian style to Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, and eventually Art Deco. Lots of beautiful, well maintained examples where I live.

The article has a point; What they're doing isn't hurting anyone, yet they face scathing scrutiny for their lack of conformity.

For all the talk these days about accepting people, we've slipped back in to 1950s level conformity. People really don't like folks that think for themselves. They're doing it because they enjoy it, and they're not forcing it down anybody's throat. Unlike some other subcultures I could list off.

 

[IronWing]

My favourite general era for architecture is from about 1890 to 1940. You go from traditional Victorian style to Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, and eventually Art Deco. Lots of beautiful, well maintained examples where I live.

I'm fond of Eastlake (the bronze knobs above, for example) and Arts and Crafts, not so much Art Nouveau. Eastlake suggests we'll live forever; Art Nouveau suggests that we are already dead. :biggrin:

 

[lxskllr]

Art deco is my favorite modern style by far. For antique, I'm fond of tudor, but anything built from stone is fine by me.

 

[IronWing]

LOL! My wife made a dress out of the same fabric the woman in the article is wearing!

 

[SAWYER]

Reading some of the amazon reviews of one of her books she is a real condesending snobbish b

 

[lxskllr]

Reading some of the amazon reviews of one of her books she is a real condesending snobbish b

She staying in character :^D