Mrs. Twig

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Mrs. Twig in 1860s England - so much clothing! Can you name everything she's wearing? How about what she must be wearing underneath?

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Kathy Howell

I wonder how much all that weights?

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Roy Carol Candy

And how long did it take to get into ?

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Kathy Howell

Roy Carol Candy no fooling I don’t see how she could do it herself so probably 2 to 3 more maybe?

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Sue Ann Bucher Wentz

Cant imagine wearing all that and then having a hot flash!!!

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Donna Appleby

Sue Ann Bucher Wentz my first thought too@@🤣

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Sue Ann Bucher Wentz

Donna Appleby those layers would have to go!!!!!

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Yvonne Hughey Godwin

Sue Ann Bucher Wentz two words:fainting couch

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Lee Ann Forester Train

Sue Ann Bucher Wentz going tinkle must have been a chore!

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Sue Ann Bucher Wentz

Lee Ann Forester Train often wondered about how they squeezed those hoops into an outhouse!!!!

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Donna Appleby

Sue Ann Bucher Wentz in a ripping panic!!

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Pat Hatley

Sue Ann Bucher Wentz You turn them vertically and in the finer outhouses there were hooks to hold their hoops.

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Sue Ann Bucher Wentz

Thanks....learned something there. The one I used at my grandparents farm or at Girl Scout camp must not have been one of the finer ones!!! So glad we have other options now!!!

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Alana Lee

Looks like she's wearing a bed spread 😉 People assume she must be hot, but she's used to wearing layers upon layers. It's just what they did then.

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Brenda Ganim

Saw a video several months ago, showing a woman dressing a model. I mean literally dressing her - lost count after the tenth piece!

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Brigitte Cherubini

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Makes a pretty picture but it must of taken all morning just to get dressed.

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Shannon Michelle

It did. I bet she had help

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Alice Chateau

...and so heavy🖤

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Drusilla Jean Newton

Mercy!

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Drusilla Jean Newton

My great-grandmother had trunks full of such finery. I have often wondered what happened to them

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Lee Ann Forester Train

Drusilla Jean Newton they’d be worth a fortune!

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DeJean Melton

It was colder then.

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Jane Resler

Oh can not even begin to name all of them

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Rochelle Dubois

Hat, cloak, shawl, pelt, bow, hoops, corset, binding, petticoat, bloomers, dress, stockings, boots/shoes, muff.. I wonder what I missed?

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Carolyn Hoyt

Rochelle Dubois Time travel for one session of dressing for the day would be very traumatic.

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Lisa Landerman

Rochelle Dubois shift, apron

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Emilia Martini

Rochelle Dubois i guanti!!!!!

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Kathi Isham

Lisa Landerman also a removable lace collar

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Carroll Rossi

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She may also be wearing a wig.

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Gina Estrada Nevarez

I can't but she was definitely not a pauper.

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Renee Murphree

Gina Estrada Nevarez no, she wasn't.

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Charyl Cook

I can't imagine having to walk around wearing all that weight. I can barely wear my leather coat.

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Martha Jane

Must have been very cold there

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Brenda Lichty-Steedley

I'm thinking it was cold in England of the 1860s. I probably would have worn as much or more clothing as this lovely lady.

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Cathy McKray Dailey

Brenda Lichty-Steedley agreed ...I was thinking the same thing..very cold!!

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Mary Hirsch

It would take forever to get dressed. You could wear that clothing here in AZ in the summer.

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Shannon Michelle

Japanese wealthy would wear twenty layers on on top the next

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Bob Gaines

How about getting into and out of all that "stuff"? Must have been a nightmare!

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Lois Stevens-Winn

Bob Gaines that's why they needed a ladies maid lol

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Lorraine Boyett

More like a tragedy Bob Gaines!😲

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Suzanne Berglund-Edwards

Lois Stevens-Winn true!

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Thomas Collens

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Hey, bathroom call! Aaaaaarrrrggghhhh!

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Kateřina Marie Farlíková

Thomas W Collens 🙂

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Robyn Elizabeth

It was and still is cold in England

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Coleen Bontrager Ross Miller

Isn't that the same dress that Mary Todd Lincoln is photographed in?

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Balenda Ganem

This is why the rooms and houses of the wealthy were so big! To accommodate these clothes. Also, it was cold in these huge homes. Transportation wasn’t heated. Once you move away from the fire the cold/damp moves in.

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Stephanie Johnston

Bet she's warm though

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Gloria Sattler

Can just imagine people of those times their heads would spin to realise just how much is worn today, to then, so such a different era to now, the progress made

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Laura Anderson

Women going out half naked is 'progress'?

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Theresa Ryder

Yes, curtains and weasels

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Paula Randolph

Must have taken all day to get dressed.

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Yvonne Hughey Godwin

How did they get anything done?

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Laura Anderson

Servants.

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Yvonne Hughey Godwin

Laura Anderson oh yeah that

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Lisa Landerman

Lady's maids did the chore of dressing and undressing.

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Lee Ann Forester Train

Hat, mink stole, mink muff, velvet cape, dress, hoop skirt, pantaloons, corset.

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Davi Vallerio

A hippie family could live inside her dress in a 1969 festival

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Eutha Black

Can you imagine the weight she was carrying on her brain.
I had a Victorian wedding and my dress was gorgeous but it was heavy but I'm glad I was strong enough to wear it.

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Joyce Barnett Russell

Mrs. Twig! 😊

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Lilly Watson

i would bet theres nothing more than a hoop under the dress to give it the look of fullness. the cape and the cap are real. oh yes and the muff is real. and her under wear.

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Sharon Jose

Can you imagine having to go to the bathroom wearing that stuff ?

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Gail Parsons Cleveland

There are some interesting videos on YouTube about dressing like a Victorian (and many other eras) woman. G rated, but show the many layers going on.

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Norma Sawicki Sharp

I think it’s stunning and absolutely beautiful!❤️

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Dawn Wright

Must have weighed many pounds. Can't imagine.

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Marilynn Marlow

She's very beautiful. Not sure of all the names if the underclothes but at the very least an under skirt, over skirt, some type of bodice/blouse (unless its a one piece dress), a beautiful cape, a muff and a hat...may have had gloves on too

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Susan Blackwell

Woman that could afford that outfit, would only have to stand there while her maids dressed her. Even with that said it would probably take at least 30-60 minutes.

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Linda Beron

I feel sorry for her! lol

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Toni Stamos

When i worked at the sewing shop a woman brought in her era period dress simular to this one and it was so heavy.
Makes you think how strong the woman were back then.

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Helen Marie

I think wearing dead animal around the shoulders and the hands in the dead animal muff is creepy.

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Marion LeBleu

I was a docent at an antebellum mansion. Yes, it’s a lot of clothing to take on and off! Then multiply all those items for costume changes multiple times during the day

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David Phelps

?? WHY?? so much.?

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Carol Piquard Compton Weir

I could never stand wearing all of that.

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Brenda Bilger

Definitely not from the poor side of the tracks.

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Judy Schroeder Bingham

YIKES!!!

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Gloria Sattler

Guess Laura Anderson some of us have different versions of half naked

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Garry Gibbs

She would have spent even more time in the bathroom than they do today!

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Earl Lee Beemer

I love my wife, but oh, you kid! Twenty-three skiddoo!

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Lancine Crain

hope her legs were strong

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Boni Russell

Why would it be colder in the 1860s than now?

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Dickie Hill

Perhaps she doesn’t have legs. She is standing, or sitting, still.

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Carrie N Larry Morgan

I could not imagine how uncomfortable she must be under all of those clothes and that hat 🥵

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Gloria Rodas

Fur trimmed velvet cape with matching fur muff tassels, silk dress, hat w/ bow and silk decorations, corset, bodice, petticoat(s) bloomers, probably silk stockings, heeled shoes/boots,

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Gloria Rodas

Oh and a quilted down filled pelise or jacket

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Jane Smith

A nightmare would have been fun! What a supreme effort!

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Marie Hutchison

To much!

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