Welcome to the latest edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes and lives. Here is the “Where Bloggers Live” group. Links to their blogs at the end.
Today’s post is “If I could travel in Time”. Well, this is a novel subject, for me at least. And definitely a difficult subject anyway.
Now, I wouldn’t necessarily like to “live in the time I’m going to discuss”. I’d like to visit the 1800’s. I have a good bit of information from some of my ancesters and I’d really love to take a vacation to ‘then’.
No phone, no TV, cars?, nothing instant, no air conditioning, no furnace with warm air, no washer and dryer, no indoor toilet, no running to the store for that last minute item. Most of this time would have been before electricity came to the area. SO, lots of no!
I do love the clothes though. I have a couple of dresses from my great grandmother, not in very good shape now, but they were made so beautifully with so much hand work.
Thanks for stopping by. Now don’t forget to check out my partners in this little adventure. I’m personally interested in reading where they would travel in time.
Bettye (our fearless leader) at Fashion Schlub
Daenel at Living Outside the Stacks
Em at Dust and Doghair
Jodie at Jodie’s Touch of Style
Leslie at Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After
Sally at Within a World of My Own
Oh, yes to all of your nos!! It would be ‘fun’ to experience life for a day or two without all of our conveniences. I have – in my adult life – lived without phone, TV (short time), a car, AC. Have stayed for days at a time where I was required to use outdoor toilets and where there was no running to the store!! But I wasn’t experiencing all of that in the great fashion that was popular in the 1800s. Have you worn a hoop petticoat and long skirt or dress before? I did have a costume that… Read more »
I’ve thought about trying to use the dresses in some way – I’ll have to dig them out from wherever I’ve hidden them. I haven’t worn long dresses, but we sometimes worr hoop petticoat and certainly crinoline skirts in the 50’s. I didn’t even allow my mother to wash them as they had to have LOTS of starch. A day in the life would be interesting.
Iris
Wouldn’t it have been challenging to live back in the 1800’s with none of the amenities we are used to today? And yet, I guess we wouldn’t know any different. It’s a fun topic to think about though…doing time travel!
I’ve been very fortunate. As an “old lady” I’ve lived through some of those things we take for granted today.
Iris
Oh, I couldn’t imagine having dresses from back in the day. A friend of mine used to work part-time at an historic site and she’d set out the displays and, man, it was everything I could do to keep from running my hands along the fabrics. When I worked at the archives at a local college, I felt the same way about our books. I’d sit there and run my hands across the covers. They were so beautiful.
I hear you – I have a few old books and love to just hold them. After making the comment, I’m not sure where the old dresses are – I’ll have to work in that.
Iris
I think we forget sometimes how privileged we are, living in a time of so many conveniences. And yes, other eras might seem romantic or exciting, but they had their own hardships.
I would love to see those dresses of your grandmother’s Iris!
xoxo Bettye
I guess I’m going to have to dig around and try and find those dresses. I did love their outfits, but don’t want to have to have to live without the conveniences.
Iris
I am 100% with you on visit a time period, but don’t stay there! I think the past is much better as a vacation than as a day-to-day experience for most of us. I am astonished that you have dresses from your great grandmother! What a wonderful physical piece of history.
Yeah, I need to dig around and find those dresses. Definitely don’t want to do without my washer and dryer.
Iris
I’d love to see those dresses that you have, Iris! That was back in the day when dresses were made for the person wearing them and you didn’t get a new one all the time!
It was definitely totally different era!
Xoox
Jodie
You’re right Jodie – it was definitely a different era. I think what I like about them, besides they were just nice looking, was that they rarely exposed parts of the body. I know I’m getting old, but I just can’t wrap my mind around some of the clothes worn today.
Iris
I was thinking of clothes, too, Iris! We watch old movies and Perry Mason reruns all the time and I am forever admiring how people dressed for everything! Movies, amusement parks, and actual going out on the town. Loooove all the old styles… (although I think, despite the beauty of the clothes, I would pass on the corset and girdles 🤣)
Had to laugh – good point – don’t think I’d be crazy about the corsets and girdles. I guess what I like so much about them is that women were usually covered up. There were times with really low necklines, but otherwise…
Iris