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Randy Bryan Bigham
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Janie,
You are very kind. I love the period in all its facets and am happy to share my enthusiasm for it. How fun to have had an Edwardian grandmother! My great-grandmothers were Edwardian. One in particular, Lillie Whitfield Tanner, was born in 1890 and married on April 23, 1912. Sadly she died young from cancer, age 36. I inherited my love of fashion from her. She was an expert dressmaker and followed all the latest trends. I am proud to own her sewing machine with which she made all her clothes from 1915 until the year of her death in 1928.
As to Victoria's influence into the first decades of the century, I think there was some but for the most part it was a time of high-energy and excessive luxury - not her style. And the new fashions didn't reflect her conservative ideals. High necklines did last a few years and, you're right, they may well have been a final sartorial vestige of her influence.
Daniel,
Specifically: Victoria died in 1901, succeeded by her son Prince Albert Edward who became King Edward VII (coronated 1902). He died in 1910.
Broadly: After Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1897, Royal public duties were mostly taken up by Edward, around whom the Court then naturally centered. Many historians point to this date as the true inception of his reign. Although Edward died in '10, historians also generally consider the last few years before the outbreak of the First World War as "Edwardian."
All my best,
Randy
You are very kind. I love the period in all its facets and am happy to share my enthusiasm for it. How fun to have had an Edwardian grandmother! My great-grandmothers were Edwardian. One in particular, Lillie Whitfield Tanner, was born in 1890 and married on April 23, 1912. Sadly she died young from cancer, age 36. I inherited my love of fashion from her. She was an expert dressmaker and followed all the latest trends. I am proud to own her sewing machine with which she made all her clothes from 1915 until the year of her death in 1928.
As to Victoria's influence into the first decades of the century, I think there was some but for the most part it was a time of high-energy and excessive luxury - not her style. And the new fashions didn't reflect her conservative ideals. High necklines did last a few years and, you're right, they may well have been a final sartorial vestige of her influence.
Daniel,
Specifically: Victoria died in 1901, succeeded by her son Prince Albert Edward who became King Edward VII (coronated 1902). He died in 1910.
Broadly: After Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1897, Royal public duties were mostly taken up by Edward, around whom the Court then naturally centered. Many historians point to this date as the true inception of his reign. Although Edward died in '10, historians also generally consider the last few years before the outbreak of the First World War as "Edwardian."
All my best,
Randy
