black white polka dot dress Diane Maxi - White/Black Sophie is 167cm FULAOER Black White Polka Dot

Although Victorian society included great contrasts between the haves and have-nots, another development of the period was the aspirational desire to dress slightly above one's station so that a clerk tried to be as well-dressed as his manager, a tradesman could copy the fashion of a man of independent means, and a shop assistant might endeavour, perhaps at the weekend, to dress like one of her lady customers

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However, in contrast to the formality of her upper half, her legs were bare beneath the mini hemline with white heeled pumps completing her outfit