gilded age

Fleetwing Fleetwing is a 32′ Kauri carved planked hull, built at St Mary’s Bay, Auckland New Zealand at the Collings & Bell yard, launched September 1920. She spent the majority of her life in the Marlborough Sounds as a commuter and work launch. Her original engine was a 4 cylinder 40-55hp Van...

Although such dates are a bit arbitrary, many historians date the Gilded Age as a period 1878-89 (after Reconstruction), before the Progressive Era 1890-1913. See, for example: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/index.php How did Titanic become associated with the Gilded Age?

I was wondering if anyone knows how a pregnant woman in 1912 would have behaved? Would she have hid in her home during the last months of pregnancy, or would she have thrown on her cutest maternity dress and gone to the market? Did maternity clothes exist then? Was it considered taboo to show...