The Psychology of Victorian Fashion

the Victorian era was characterized by

the generation of a substantive amount

of wealth and one could argue that part

of what was happening on the Victorian

Beauty front was the advertisement by

Aristocrats that they could tolerate

this encumbrance in the name of beauty

because they had the financial resources

to sustain it you know there's there's

an example of that biologically it would

be in principle would be the peacock's

tale which is extraordinarily beautiful

but also quite the encumbrance and

apparently part of what it signifies

especially if it's perfectly symmetrical

and well-formed and heavy is that the

male who sports that plumage has

sufficient health and resources to pull

that off without dying it's an

exuberance of display on the sexual

front