edwardian era

G'day, everyone. For those who aren't aware/haven't noticed, I'm new to "Encyclopedia Titanica" and I'd say that this site is a great source for information about the ship and the sinking. Anyways, to the point. I'm writing a novel about the R.M.S Titanic and the events surrounding...

Hello everyone, this is a general question, and hopefully nobody gets it wrong. Of course there is a lot about edwardian and victorian fashion, but I wonder what the beauty standards for a woman was in those times. I haven seen pictures of many women who have been proclaimed to have been the...

Hello! After collecting several (albeit probably wayyy too many haha!) Titanic nonfiction books, i've started to look for books more into my favorite genre, historical fiction. Does anyone have any recommendations or reviews of books in this genre about Titanic so i can get to know what i'm...

Hello everyone, I have asked a similar question a few weeks ago, about how arab and muslims passengers were treated on the titanic. Now I wonder what the general perception of the middle east and orientalistic culture and the ottoman history was in edwardian Britain. Did people at that time in...

Hello! I'm in the research stage of a novel (time travel, should be fun!) and was hoping to find out some practical details of what life on the Titanic would have been like for a personal maid of a first class lady. I've seen on here that they ate in the maid & valet saloon and (if they were...

Hello! I'm currently in the process of starting to make an Edwardian era day dress, and though i have the pattern for the dress its self laid out i've run into an issue when looking for a corset pattern, a LOT of patterns on some sites i've looked at are falsely named Edwardian when they are in...

I'm curious about something. I've looked at hundreds of pictures, read books and studied. Titanic's officers have a certain swagger that comes through in their photographs. From Smith to Lowe and everyone in between, theses men carried themselves with great pride and presence. It does come...

Hi all, I apologize in advance if this is in the wrong forum. As some of you may remember I'm been working on a time travel story where people go back to the Titanic. If a woman was dressed in a pants suite that would be considered professionally acceptable today what would the likely reaction...

So I cobbled these together from TUGS sprites over at Deviantart. Did two versions, One with lifeboats and one without lifeboats: Tell me what you think? I'm the only person who has done this. I'm planning on making starboard side versions of these,

This appears to be a new book (2019). I'm reading it now; it follows six passengers from boarding to the sinking and either death or survival. It does go off on several tangents describing political and social events of the day (suffrage, Irish Home Rule, the decline of the aristocracy even...

Just noticed this new addition to the Titanic "library". Published in hardback only last month. Has anyone had the chance to read this yet or had any contact with the author ? Seems like the author is going for the social history angle rather than than any technical angle but thankfully is...

How would people avoid body odours in those days? Considering how many more layers people wore even on a summer day at the beach they must have stank unless there was some sort of anti whiff on offer. Did people have an effective deodorant in thoses days? I heard that talcum powder was applied...

I must plug my own site. *ggg* Edwardian Promenade

Thought this link might be of some interest to you. I'd actually recommend this website for lots of useful bits and pieces of information and articles to do with the Victorian - Edwardian era. http://www.victorianamagazine.com/edwardian/edwardianclothing.html [Moderator's Note: This post...

Hard to believe that this was thought to be pornographic at the turn of the century.....dated on the back July 1912

various pics from my collection of vintage catalogue

I have my edwardian outfit almost done and now I would like to have a portrait and I want look like a "young man of the upper class." I would wear a cutaway coat with pinstriped gray trousers, gray waistcoat, shirt with starched wing collar, four-in-hand tie with golden pin and a pearl...

I have searched for anything that would give me some idea of what curse words would have been used in the Edwardian Era. For some reason, I find it highly unlikely for anyone to have used the words Rose and Jack used on Cameron's Titanic. I doubt anyone was that foul-mouthed back then… even...

Hello all! I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any Edwardian evening gowns? I should probably say "Titanic era" of like 1911, 1912 or 1913. I've found many original gowns but they are all (as you can imagine) expensive or already sold. I'm kinda looking for a pattern. I know around the time of...

I was reading about Peter Pan the other day, and it mentioned something I didn't know about the Edwardian Era. It said that children, in this particular case, boys, wore pinafores until they achieved a ripe old age of 5 or so. I have looked up pinafore online, but it only mentioned it for...