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Why Victorian elites dressed to prove they never worked

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Conspicuous consumption is the art of buying things entirely to demonstrate you do not need to sweat for a living. Victorian elites wore suffocating corsets and ridiculously fragile lace specifically because you cannot scrub a floor while wearing them. It was a massive financial flex signaling total detachment from manual exertion.

Why Victorian elites dressed to prove they never worked
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