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By the way, the dress-wearing was usually due to the ease of wearing for children. It's a lot easier to clean up a child who makes a mess/needs a diaper change if they were wearing a dress than having to deal with all the clasps or ties for the pants
Just came here to say this. The only reason that it's easy to put baby boys in trousers today is because of elastic, snaps and zippers. Before that nobody was undoing a dozen buttons every time you wanted to change a dirty nappy. Plus babies and children are grubby so you dress them in simply made white cotton dresses that can be boiled clean, bleached white again and dried quickly.
Confirmed. My great-grandma was born in 1870s and lived onto 1960s. My mom had just had my eldest brother and she remembered how amazed great-grandma was of children's stockings and modern diapers of the time. She said her kids only had "little shirts" as the dresses were called because clean up was easier.
I'd happily watch a Let's Play of this Victorian family. It'd be perfect for Halloween! Why not have someone be a gravedigger or do a séance? Something to do with ghosts, perhaps, as they're so obsessed with the dead.
So, the corset thing isn't actually true. I'm a Victorian period enthusiast as well. Corsets were made for all different body types and were and still are safe to wear if made properly and made for your measurements. Lacing a corset too tight wasn't common either. The reason people think they were unsafe is actually because of men. Victorian men were upset that the fashion industry was primarily run by women, and women weren't allowed to have that much freedom in their books. Corsets were a big thing, so men made fake studies about corsets being harmful.
If you were a woman with a bigger bust you probably were stuck wearing them for practical reasons and not just for fashion. Plus corset’s were used to take all the weight of their clothes off of their body, because of how many layers women would wear. Also fun fact; in France men would also wear corset’s to.
I’m not sure about the men making stuff up part (not saying it’s not true I just haven’t seen that) but I agree. Corsets are not at all how media portrays it. Just like everything back then it was measured and made to size and having ribs broken etc was rare and you still breathe wearing them lol
Also a lot of the pictures we have of women with insanely small waists were doctored. Photoshop before photoshop - literally drawing on either the photo or the negative. Of course there were a few women who did tight lace and cause themselves harm, but that's kind of the equivalent of that weird cat lady or the guy who used plastic surgery to make himself look like a Ken doll.
Fun fact, if you're playing an old era family or an Amish like family, give them the technophobe trait with cheats, they will never pull out their phones and try to play games on them, it really changes the gameplay, they will either read, or play musical instruments, for fun, instead of playing on their phones or watching the TV
Actually something you might think is interesting is that the victorian beauty standard was what women looked like when they had tuberculosis, they thought that the way tuberculosis made people look was extremely attractive so they used makeup to try and look like they had it!
Wealthy families did indeed put their little boys in dresses while they were toddlers. It was partially to save on buying or making loads of baby clothes, but also it's a lot easier to wrestle a toddler into a loose dress than pants, especially in an era before velcro or snaps.
I used to watch hidden killers of the victorian home all the time, so this is right up my alley! I find this period in time fascinating. I think there were lots of different episodes of different time periods, they were all really interesting.
Oh yer there was one more job That was a Dog Poop collector. Leather became very popular in the late 1800s, and in order to soften leather pieces, dog poop was used as a softener of sorts.
I love this! For a good Victorian and Edwardian era culture fix, I recommend the RUclips channels of various fashion historians. I'm partial to Bernadette Banner and Karolina Żebroska, but there are a good number of educational entertainment channels that focus on historical day to day life culture of varying periods.
@@Kabotynka thank you! I typed it correctly but my predictive text changed it, I think. thanks for bringing that to my attention so I could edit the comment. can't let meme mom down.
Victorian boys did wear "dresses" until about the age of 3 or 4 and then they would switch to short pants. Not wanting to get close to their children wasn't really a factor, the gown was because it was easier to change their nappy. Victorians loved their children as much as we do today. There are lots of accounts people falling into deep "melancholia" after the death of a baby or toddler.
Another issue with the baby bottles is that they would add an alkaline to get rid of the acidic bacteria building, milk curdling taste of the expired milk, thinking it "fixed" the milk, making it last longer. Instead, they got lots and lots of botulism.
I loved it! (History nerd, here!) I knew about the arsenic in the green wallpaper, it made its way to the states, also. In fact, we didn’t stop painting walls, or using gasoline with lead in it until the 70/80…1970s/1980s! Also had to laugh about “back in Victorian times, EVERYONE was obsessed with women’s weight.” And this has changed….not at all! At least you can find bras for bigger than a B cup that will hold the girls up with no underwire and pantyhose is no longer a general requirement. The menace of high heels with pointy toes will probably be with us forever, tho. Thanks for the great video!!!
I really liked this video because I'm also really interested in the Victorian time period for some of the same reasons you are. It was such a strange bleak and morbid time and that's what makes it so compelling to me to find out more about it. I didn't know some of the stuff you mentioned. I'd love if you did more videos like this one.
I have a Victorian-era locket with a picture of a little Victorian girl inside. I’ve always wondered who she was and what her life was like, but it’s also kind of creepy. Really liked this video!
Karla's proclivity for the morbid is not far off. Fun video♥ I especially like the green wallpaper, well I do like green wallpaper, but that green from the arsenic was truly a beautiful poison and Victoria should be ashamed for not banning its production as soon as she learned. As a girl (since, well, my voice never changed) of the 21st century, I celebrate the freedoms from such things as corsets, and the ability to attain to landownership. Thanks. I'll count my blessings today.
Love this video! And I like that you mentioned that plumbing and electricity were a thing by the specific time you mention. My hometown was founded in 1893, the last decade of the Victorian period. At a local museum there is a preserved Victorian house that was originally owned by very wealthy town founders. It includes a bathroom. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard people try to claim that wasn’t original to the house. But it is. The reason we have the house is because the family built themselves a bigger one at the start of the 20th century. They didn’t put electricity because there wasn’t any of that in the rural areas in this part of the US a bit later (and that newer house did eventually get upgraded with electricity). I also like that you mentioned purple being popular at this time. It’s accurate because a way had been found to make it that reduced the cost and luxury of purple dye. My dad just earlier this year was restoring an old Victorian home in a nearby small town that had been empty for ages and whose second floor was sealed off (the stairs were like in a room, you open a door to get to them and that door had been boarded up so whom😢had owned it until it was abandoned and left to fall apart had just been using the downstairs. The downstairs was modernized with telephone cord outlets, cable tv cord outlets, etc. Upstairs wasn’t touched other than that it had outdated electrical outlets. One bedroom had a purple wallpaper it with sailing ships patterns on it. It was mostly faded due to sunlight from a big window and in some parts rain water from where the roof had collapsed. Him fixing the house in order to resell it made me curious to learn more about the time period the original house was built and I guess it was pretty standard for an 1890s middle class Victorian house in the area. So I enjoyed hearing those things get mentioned when discussing facts. Not gonna lie as much as I enjoy watching people do the decades challenge, there are times when I wish people did more studying of the time periods as they plan. Many times there’s historical inaccuracies based on modern perceptions of those previous decades. And a lot of what we think about those previous decades is mostly expressions of wealthy and middle class folks...which people seem to glamorize. I haven’t seen anyone play the decades challenge as working class or lower classes. Especially for the lower classes, a lot didn’t really change for them as quickly as the other classes. Also I have noticed that almost everyone plays it using some of the US’s history with a specifically Southern bent to it. Segregation wasn’t a thing in all states, nor was miscegenation laws. Likewise same-sex marriage came about at different times in different states, too. And they start in the 1890s but skip right over the Spanish-American War. Which sure it wasn’t a long war, it is considered a pivotal war in moving the US into a superpower. It was also a pretty important war to folks living in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, and The Philippines who found themselves as US territories after the war (two still are). I mean one of the major streets in my hometown’s downtown is Maine Street named after the USS Maine which is the incident in Havana Bay that set off the US declaring war on Spain! It’d be interesting to see someone do the decades channel from another nation’s perspective. 1890 to modern day 2022 hasn’t played out the same way for people in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Russia, India, Japan, China, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, etc, etc, etc, etc. Anyways loved this video! I didn’t know about the dead baby photos and some other fun facts you provided. I do know in the US that in lower class, working class, and some middle class families dressing boys and girls in dresses until a certain age was common even up into the 1930s (I have family photos from that time of grandparents, great aunts/uncles, etc). I do know that in the early 20th century that’s where the blue and pink come into play for boy or girl, except that it was reversed from our time. Pink was for boys and blue was for girls. If I remember this changes in the 1940s or 1950s in the US mostly due to department stores advertising the colors the opposite way than what had been traditionally thought of prior (much like a lot of traditions in the US which shifted in the 1940s and 1950s and beyond as consumer culture became more dominant and mass media beyond newspapers became more common). If you want to make more videos like this I’m happy to watch them about whatever time period! It was fun to watch and learn! I’ve been busy this week with all kinds of things so getting to your videos later than usual (I swear I think every company, organization, etc in my city decided that the first week in October was just too dull in past years because this year it’s been full which means more people in the city...people who dine out so busy at my job. I’d say I’m looking forward to next week, but apparently there’s an Oktoberfest planned for next weekend at a shopping center right across the street from my job).
I'd love to see a Let's Play with this family! The little ones could grow up into Edwardians who would scratch their gray heads at their flapper daughters and jazz-obsessed sons. The march of time, with each generation, would be really fun. You could even use the séance kit, since that was all the rage back then. You do have to ignore some of the built-in anachronisms that come with TS4, but I actually think you could do a pretty nice decades (or maybe "eras") challenge with Henford-on-Bagley. Eco Living, Island Living, and Cottage Living all gave us some pretty good ways to have sims exist without modern electronics or plumbing. They can catch, grow, can, and prep their own food pretty readily. They can knit some of their own clothes. There are knight costumes. Honestly, I think you can do a march forward through time pretty convincingly. I'm not really sure how far back you could go. I feel like hunter-gatherers are probably out, and maybe there aren't enough togas and tunics for Roman-era England, but you could probably start in the late Medieval or Renaissance period. You could definitely make the early modern period work.
I love the concept of this video! Two things I noticed: - A family with that kind of wealth would probably have live in servants. The mother would certainly not make dinner herself. A cook, a maid and a nanny were like the minimum requirements to run a family home. Think about how much work the washing (by hand) for a family of five alone would be. - A wealthy man in that position would certainly not work as a woodworker. That kind of wealth points to either generational wealth or good investments. At that time, investors were making lots of money from anything to do with the colonies like ships and overseas trade.
Love the victorian family! I do want to give a shout out to some historical costumers who specialize in corsets and it's history.The percent who tight laces is on the same scale as people with EDs. Most corsets were padded to give the dramatic shapes and were (and are) really comfortable. Bernnadet Banner has a good video on the subject.
I love the stray from what you normally upload. Honestly, I’d probably watch anything you upload. Love to listen while I get things done around the house.
I loved this video! It was really interesting and creative, I knew a lot of it already but the way it was presented was great. One note about the baby bottles and the rubber tubing - this is actually why plastic straws were SO revolutionary, not necessarily for babies but for seriously disabled people who couldn't handle eating solid food. So many of them died for the same reason that babies did from the bacteria in the rubber tubes. Plastic straws are honestly still the best option for a lot of people as the alternatives include things that degrade too easily, splinter, aren't flexible, etc.
Sorry but I did have to correct you on this, corsets were not to just to make you seem skinny that was mostly an after effect, the main reason for the corset was bust support and support for the weight of their skirts and petty coats, and another added benefit of the corset was posture correction it made the posture straight and helped keep it that way, tight lacing was something done but it was not common and was looked down upon as well, but each corset was measured and sized to you and your body type so it was a very personal object for each person
I absolutely adored this video!! I love learning about history in a fun way, what better way to do this than with the Sims 😍 I hope you make more period videos like this!!!!
Fascinating. I remember some of these things being covered in a TV show; Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, specifically the baby bottles. The poisonous wall paper was covered in another show. Good job, if I can say, wonderful content. I'm glad I'm not living in the Victorian times, I probably wouldn'y have survived too long, lol.
Really enjoyed this!! Would you consider doing a series where you do similar things? I'd love to watch something on the life of a peasant family in the early 14th century
Interesting thing about the mourning, it was considered in poor taste to cease mourning the late king before his widow. Since queen victoria never came out of mourning, her subjects couldn't either, particularly the nobility.
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Just to clarify corsets were not oppressive in any way, and should not be painful (Before I continue I just quickly want to say I mean no hate whatsoever this is just me correcting you on a common misconception which is often re-enforced by the media and I love video and especially the character designs though it did sort of bug me that the lady looked Edwardian I have tried making historically accurate sims using cc and it is impossible but yours look amazing) Their purpose was not to make you appear slimmer as modern corsets are, rather to provide support similarly to bras and to be honest I want a corset as they look far more comfortable The only things that should cause your corset to be painful is it it does but fit you (please do not buy cheap corsets unless it's for only fashion it needs to be fitted to you properly) you are wearing it on your bare skin(it will chafe and be extremely uncomfortable I imagine kind of like walking in wet boots without any socks or tights), or if you tight laced it ,tight lacing shouldn't even hurt that much from what people have said it's just a bit stiffer, tight lacing was done for fashion to help achieve the fashionable shape (fashion was more shape based then weight and this was largely achieved using padding and similar) They most definitely did not shift your organs or damage your body(the only thing they could maybe do is cause your core muscle to deteriorate as it supported you and held your posture) The majority of the papers saying this were A: written by men who did not normally wear the corsets, and B: written by doctors of the time, who as we accept as fact for every thing other than corsets had zero idea what they were doing(I mean they literally thought the uterus was suspended on strings ) Women also could move in corsets! There is photographic evidence of women climbing, riding bikes, etc and I think there were even sports corsets (though I am not sure if that is a Victorian thing) So, in short corsets were not at all a bad thing and to anyone interested I recommend checking it Bernadette banner and Karolina zebrowska, as well as Abby Cox, Morgan Donner, and a whole load more people(the Catherine de medichi time travel society!) and if you want more just corset specific information I recommend looking at Lucy's corsetry
I've got one for you. Top three of the worst toddler/young child causes of death. This particular death certificate was actually circa the 191X or 192X. Immigrant family. Young and with only one child so far, a little boy around 18 months old. Took some newspaper reports to really put it together due to the language divide. Weekday, dad at work, mom at home with baby. It was summer if I recall. Mom was making fly paper. Basically you took a bowl, put some sort of substrate (like old strips of cloth) and you soaked it in some kind of mixture that included arsenic. Baby came along at some point and drank what was in the bowl. Awful, awful stuff.
If you can dig up the series (three-part I think) "Victorian Pharmacy" done by the BBC, I think you'll LOVE it. That's where I learned about the arsenic poisoning and other horrible things, such as giving children opium to stop them crying. Thing is, many were crying because they were very hungry, but the opium just sort of...whacked them out. So they couldn't vocalise that they were starving or uncomfortable. Super dangerous.
Hey, I really liked this video, I knew of the Victorian facts, except why they had singer outside the barbershop 💈. A let’s play of Victorian times would be really nice. Also may a like play of a Victorian farm, would be good 😊.
Bringing up the barbers also doing small surgery’s- this had been around for quite a while and were often summarised as barber surgeons who would trim your hair and maybe pull a tooth out! 2 in 1 deal. (That’s my history revision done)
Brit I’m so excited to see your halloween serious.. you should do maybe twin witches, or maybe give a large family a bunch of diseases to see who can die off first and who’s the last standing!
I actually really enjoyed this video! I think you should deffo do another, learnt more from this one video than I did my entire school years 😂 you make it sound more interesting lol x
I’ve watched and rewatched the hidden killers episodes XD so - quite all things I knew. Another “Fun” job of the era was being a “Night Soil Man” ((or for Tudor era Gong Farmer! It’s more fun to say honestly)) and they were the guys that came around and cleaned your poo pit! XD ((the holes in the ground of the privies or if they had indoor ‘toilets’ in a much grosser fashion… your basement. Basement septic tank just makes me really glad I was born POST indoor plumbing ((also post them adding the lil swirly dongle in the back that made sure your loo didn’t explode)))
Karla, you would love this, I actually work for an auction gallery here in the US and we've legit sold Victorian mourning jewelry that has lockets of dead children, either tin types or ambrotypes, with braided locks of hair. Some even woven hair as a type of bracelet chain. Full on gagged when I touched that to show someone. If scientists really wanted to, you could use this antique shit to clone ol' Matilda from Dorchester! Really loved this video by the way! I love the Victorian and Gilded Age aesthetics, but SUPER glad we're in the modern age and not then, with all the arsenic wallpaper and lead poisoning.
I have a piece of mourning jewellery (not sure of the era, it was listed as Victorian but you never know). I love it but noticed the blonde hair in it has sort of discoloured over the years. It used to be a very bright blonde and now it's sort of dull, almost a very fair brown-green(!?) shade. Personally owning something made from a dead person's hair has never bothered me as it's probably one of the cleanest things you could turn into memorial jewellery. I definitely prefer it over teeth!
yes yes yes i loved this video & the little facts you give about the time period i only going your page about a month ago snd been watching everything even from a year ago lol you’re so entertaining & funny i live for it
This video is perfect for me atm I am doing Victober a read a thon and chose a dark Charles Dickens novel as one of the reads and this goes along with the ambiance perfectly.
WOW. Talk about me ACTUALLY listening and watching a video. (on any other video) I'll usually click off, scroll through some TS4 mods, look at my Amazon wishlist or some other task that cuts my attention in half, but this kept me glued to the screen. I loved these facts!! ain't ya glad we don't live on those times anymore? tuh, I prolly woulda killed myself. lmao
This was very fun. I would love to see some historically set dramas. Hell, OnlySims would have been a huge hit with the victorians if they'd had access, so there would be a rich amount of storytelling/gameplay that would work well, hell the high mortality rate would make for interesting gameplay for some of the darker mods.... Steampunk would be an awesome setting too...... Scandalous content options all over. :)
The barber thing isn't just exclusive to the Victorian era. My grandfather was born in 1919 and was a trained barber. He was a masseur, chiropractor, and according to him as I never saw this myself, learned to do minor surgeries along with give precise cuts. (He however refused to ever cut my hair. The reason? I'm a girl.)
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By the way, the dress-wearing was usually due to the ease of wearing for children. It's a lot easier to clean up a child who makes a mess/needs a diaper change if they were wearing a dress than having to deal with all the clasps or ties for the pants
Just came here to say this. The only reason that it's easy to put baby boys in trousers today is because of elastic, snaps and zippers. Before that nobody was undoing a dozen buttons every time you wanted to change a dirty nappy. Plus babies and children are grubby so you dress them in simply made white cotton dresses that can be boiled clean, bleached white again and dried quickly.
Confirmed. My great-grandma was born in 1870s and lived onto 1960s. My mom had just had my eldest brother and she remembered how amazed great-grandma was of children's stockings and modern diapers of the time. She said her kids only had "little shirts" as the dresses were called because clean up was easier.
So you mean all this fuss about boys wearing dresses is all bs?!They’ve been wearing dresses for ages??! (Sarcasm)
I'd happily watch a Let's Play of this Victorian family. It'd be perfect for Halloween! Why not have someone be a gravedigger or do a séance? Something to do with ghosts, perhaps, as they're so obsessed with the dead.
So, the corset thing isn't actually true. I'm a Victorian period enthusiast as well. Corsets were made for all different body types and were and still are safe to wear if made properly and made for your measurements. Lacing a corset too tight wasn't common either. The reason people think they were unsafe is actually because of men. Victorian men were upset that the fashion industry was primarily run by women, and women weren't allowed to have that much freedom in their books. Corsets were a big thing, so men made fake studies about corsets being harmful.
Let me know if I got anything wrong!
If you were a woman with a bigger bust you probably were stuck wearing them for practical reasons and not just for fashion. Plus corset’s were used to take all the weight of their clothes off of their body, because of how many layers women would wear.
Also fun fact; in France men would also wear corset’s to.
This! Exactly!
I’m not sure about the men making stuff up part (not saying it’s not true I just haven’t seen that) but I agree. Corsets are not at all how media portrays it. Just like everything back then it was measured and made to size and having ribs broken etc was rare and you still breathe wearing them lol
Also a lot of the pictures we have of women with insanely small waists were doctored. Photoshop before photoshop - literally drawing on either the photo or the negative. Of course there were a few women who did tight lace and cause themselves harm, but that's kind of the equivalent of that weird cat lady or the guy who used plastic surgery to make himself look like a Ken doll.
Fun fact, if you're playing an old era family or an Amish like family, give them the technophobe trait with cheats, they will never pull out their phones and try to play games on them, it really changes the gameplay, they will either read, or play musical instruments, for fun, instead of playing on their phones or watching the TV
Actually something you might think is interesting is that the victorian beauty standard was what women looked like when they had tuberculosis, they thought that the way tuberculosis made people look was extremely attractive so they used makeup to try and look like they had it!
We still do that to this day, with the 80s craze of Heroin Chic and now with the red nose E-girls. Beauty is Sick, yo!
@@XRaykaX damn, I forgot about Heroin Chic. What is the red nose supposed to represent in terms of disease/addiction then?
@@Syntaxxed its just blush-
I would watch an entire series of this oh my gosh
I am so down for this
Same! I'm loving it
I know a channel that actually does this a makes a new video ever week of Victorian families.
@@Miracle12348pls where
@@cryingwatercolours8127 I forgot the name :(
Wealthy families did indeed put their little boys in dresses while they were toddlers. It was partially to save on buying or making loads of baby clothes, but also it's a lot easier to wrestle a toddler into a loose dress than pants, especially in an era before velcro or snaps.
ALL families dressed their infants and toddlers in dresses, male and female. Not just wealthy families.
I think this was fun. I love learning about history and the sims is a really nice visual to have going on while your talking about it.
About the corset part: corset were comfortable and great support for the breast and back. It wasn't supposed to squise (skize) your organs or anything
(squeeze)
I used to watch hidden killers of the victorian home all the time, so this is right up my alley! I find this period in time fascinating. I think there were lots of different episodes of different time periods, they were all really interesting.
Oh yer there was one more job That was a Dog Poop collector. Leather became very popular in the late 1800s, and in order to soften leather pieces, dog poop was used as a softener of sorts.
that job should be brought back since people let their dog poo lie around everywhere xD (jk)
For some reason this wants me to recreate the handmaids tale in the sims. 😂
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Love that show. My fav part is when Nick and Fred go out to the woods to meet a party of chicks and he gets like SUPER stoned.
I love this! For a good Victorian and Edwardian era culture fix, I recommend the RUclips channels of various fashion historians. I'm partial to Bernadette Banner and Karolina Żebroska, but there are a good number of educational entertainment channels that focus on historical day to day life culture of varying periods.
@@Kabotynka thank you! I typed it correctly but my predictive text changed it, I think. thanks for bringing that to my attention so I could edit the comment. can't let meme mom down.
I think I just learned more from a Sims 4 video than History Class. What the heck Karla? I came here to watch sims get tortur- oh wait...
You should make a “decades challenge” inspired series! Love this sort of stuff 🥰
I really enjoyed this little history lesson with Sims. Thank you for doing this Carla
I'm actually currently taking a college course on Victorian Britain this semester. Pretty coincidental timing.
I love this! I really wish EA would come out with era type CAS kits. I love victorian but also 20's because of the flapper dresses.
*it looked like everyone was going to a funeral all the time*
Essentially lmao
Victorian boys did wear "dresses" until about the age of 3 or 4 and then they would switch to short pants. Not wanting to get close to their children wasn't really a factor, the gown was because it was easier to change their nappy. Victorians loved their children as much as we do today. There are lots of accounts people falling into deep "melancholia" after the death of a baby or toddler.
I love history class with you! Count my vote in for doing more videos like this
Another issue with the baby bottles is that they would add an alkaline to get rid of the acidic bacteria building, milk curdling taste of the expired milk, thinking it "fixed" the milk, making it last longer. Instead, they got lots and lots of botulism.
I loved it! (History nerd, here!) I knew about the arsenic in the green wallpaper, it made its way to the states, also. In fact, we didn’t stop painting walls, or using gasoline with lead in it until the 70/80…1970s/1980s! Also had to laugh about “back in Victorian times, EVERYONE was obsessed with women’s weight.” And this has changed….not at all! At least you can find bras for bigger than a B cup that will hold the girls up with no underwire and pantyhose is no longer a general requirement. The menace of high heels with pointy toes will probably be with us forever, tho. Thanks for the great video!!!
We need more of this ! 💜
I really enjoyed this “actual” educational video 😝 I would definitely be interested in watching more of these types of videos!
I really liked this video because I'm also really interested in the Victorian time period for some of the same reasons you are. It was such a strange bleak and morbid time and that's what makes it so compelling to me to find out more about it. I didn't know some of the stuff you mentioned. I'd love if you did more videos like this one.
I have a Victorian-era locket with a picture of a little Victorian girl inside. I’ve always wondered who she was and what her life was like, but it’s also kind of creepy. Really liked this video!
Karla's proclivity for the morbid is not far off. Fun video♥ I especially like the green wallpaper, well I do like green wallpaper, but that green from the arsenic was truly a beautiful poison and Victoria should be ashamed for not banning its production as soon as she learned. As a girl (since, well, my voice never changed) of the 21st century, I celebrate the freedoms from such things as corsets, and the ability to attain to landownership. Thanks. I'll count my blessings today.
Well done! I just loved learning about the morbid side of Victorian history, especially told by you, Carla! ❤😂❤
Love this video! And I like that you mentioned that plumbing and electricity were a thing by the specific time you mention. My hometown was founded in 1893, the last decade of the Victorian period. At a local museum there is a preserved Victorian house that was originally owned by very wealthy town founders. It includes a bathroom. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard people try to claim that wasn’t original to the house. But it is. The reason we have the house is because the family built themselves a bigger one at the start of the 20th century. They didn’t put electricity because there wasn’t any of that in the rural areas in this part of the US a bit later (and that newer house did eventually get upgraded with electricity). I also like that you mentioned purple being popular at this time. It’s accurate because a way had been found to make it that reduced the cost and luxury of purple dye. My dad just earlier this year was restoring an old Victorian home in a nearby small town that had been empty for ages and whose second floor was sealed off (the stairs were like in a room, you open a door to get to them and that door had been boarded up so whom😢had owned it until it was abandoned and left to fall apart had just been using the downstairs. The downstairs was modernized with telephone cord outlets, cable tv cord outlets, etc. Upstairs wasn’t touched other than that it had outdated electrical outlets. One bedroom had a purple wallpaper it with sailing ships patterns on it. It was mostly faded due to sunlight from a big window and in some parts rain water from where the roof had collapsed. Him fixing the house in order to resell it made me curious to learn more about the time period the original house was built and I guess it was pretty standard for an 1890s middle class Victorian house in the area. So I enjoyed hearing those things get mentioned when discussing facts. Not gonna lie as much as I enjoy watching people do the decades challenge, there are times when I wish people did more studying of the time periods as they plan. Many times there’s historical inaccuracies based on modern perceptions of those previous decades. And a lot of what we think about those previous decades is mostly expressions of wealthy and middle class folks...which people seem to glamorize. I haven’t seen anyone play the decades challenge as working class or lower classes. Especially for the lower classes, a lot didn’t really change for them as quickly as the other classes. Also I have noticed that almost everyone plays it using some of the US’s history with a specifically Southern bent to it. Segregation wasn’t a thing in all states, nor was miscegenation laws. Likewise same-sex marriage came about at different times in different states, too. And they start in the 1890s but skip right over the Spanish-American War. Which sure it wasn’t a long war, it is considered a pivotal war in moving the US into a superpower. It was also a pretty important war to folks living in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, and The Philippines who found themselves as US territories after the war (two still are). I mean one of the major streets in my hometown’s downtown is Maine Street named after the USS Maine which is the incident in Havana Bay that set off the US declaring war on Spain! It’d be interesting to see someone do the decades channel from another nation’s perspective. 1890 to modern day 2022 hasn’t played out the same way for people in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Russia, India, Japan, China, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Anyways loved this video! I didn’t know about the dead baby photos and some other fun facts you provided. I do know in the US that in lower class, working class, and some middle class families dressing boys and girls in dresses until a certain age was common even up into the 1930s (I have family photos from that time of grandparents, great aunts/uncles, etc). I do know that in the early 20th century that’s where the blue and pink come into play for boy or girl, except that it was reversed from our time. Pink was for boys and blue was for girls. If I remember this changes in the 1940s or 1950s in the US mostly due to department stores advertising the colors the opposite way than what had been traditionally thought of prior (much like a lot of traditions in the US which shifted in the 1940s and 1950s and beyond as consumer culture became more dominant and mass media beyond newspapers became more common).
If you want to make more videos like this I’m happy to watch them about whatever time period! It was fun to watch and learn! I’ve been busy this week with all kinds of things so getting to your videos later than usual (I swear I think every company, organization, etc in my city decided that the first week in October was just too dull in past years because this year it’s been full which means more people in the city...people who dine out so busy at my job. I’d say I’m looking forward to next week, but apparently there’s an Oktoberfest planned for next weekend at a shopping center right across the street from my job).
I'd love to see a Let's Play with this family! The little ones could grow up into Edwardians who would scratch their gray heads at their flapper daughters and jazz-obsessed sons. The march of time, with each generation, would be really fun. You could even use the séance kit, since that was all the rage back then.
You do have to ignore some of the built-in anachronisms that come with TS4, but I actually think you could do a pretty nice decades (or maybe "eras") challenge with Henford-on-Bagley. Eco Living, Island Living, and Cottage Living all gave us some pretty good ways to have sims exist without modern electronics or plumbing. They can catch, grow, can, and prep their own food pretty readily. They can knit some of their own clothes. There are knight costumes. Honestly, I think you can do a march forward through time pretty convincingly. I'm not really sure how far back you could go. I feel like hunter-gatherers are probably out, and maybe there aren't enough togas and tunics for Roman-era England, but you could probably start in the late Medieval or Renaissance period. You could definitely make the early modern period work.
What a brilliant idea! We need a series
I love some good history facts. Thoroughly enjoyed this!
I would watch the HELL out of historic sims content! This video was amazing ❤️
I loved this video! Two of my passions are history and The Sims, so I'd love as many videos like these as you'll make
The toxic green wallpaper was the first thing I clocked. This is really well done!
I love the Victorian era so much, it brings me so much joy and oddly a lot of comfort
I love the concept of this video! Two things I noticed:
- A family with that kind of wealth would probably have live in servants. The mother would certainly not make dinner herself. A cook, a maid and a nanny were like the minimum requirements to run a family home. Think about how much work the washing (by hand) for a family of five alone would be.
- A wealthy man in that position would certainly not work as a woodworker. That kind of wealth points to either generational wealth or good investments. At that time, investors were making lots of money from anything to do with the colonies like ships and overseas trade.
Love the victorian family! I do want to give a shout out to some historical costumers who specialize in corsets and it's history.The percent who tight laces is on the same scale as people with EDs. Most corsets were padded to give the dramatic shapes and were (and are) really comfortable. Bernnadet Banner has a good video on the subject.
I would watch the shit out of this series
I’m a history and sims buff and seeing it fused together is so cool, make more of them❤❤
Absolutely love this video!!!! I also love history especially macabre history! More please!!
okay I love tihs! Instead of the decades challenge maybe do a series like this only on ep on each decade? your commentary is gold!
I enjoyed this video, I like your regular stuff as well but this was interesting and something a bit different. I'd definitely watch more like this.
the rich rich even had that "arsenic green" in their gowns, sometimes with some dead beetles as beads bc come on so cute
I love the stray from what you normally upload. Honestly, I’d probably watch anything you upload. Love to listen while I get things done around the house.
I loved this video! It was really interesting and creative, I knew a lot of it already but the way it was presented was great.
One note about the baby bottles and the rubber tubing - this is actually why plastic straws were SO revolutionary, not necessarily for babies but for seriously disabled people who couldn't handle eating solid food. So many of them died for the same reason that babies did from the bacteria in the rubber tubes. Plastic straws are honestly still the best option for a lot of people as the alternatives include things that degrade too easily, splinter, aren't flexible, etc.
Love this! I dig the Victorian Era as well and a fun history lesson is always welcomed!!
Sorry but I did have to correct you on this, corsets were not to just to make you seem skinny that was mostly an after effect, the main reason for the corset was bust support and support for the weight of their skirts and petty coats, and another added benefit of the corset was posture correction it made the posture straight and helped keep it that way, tight lacing was something done but it was not common and was looked down upon as well, but each corset was measured and sized to you and your body type so it was a very personal object for each person
I absolutely adored this video!! I love learning about history in a fun way, what better way to do this than with the Sims 😍 I hope you make more period videos like this!!!!
Fascinating. I remember some of these things being covered in a TV show; Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, specifically the baby bottles. The poisonous wall paper was covered in another show. Good job, if I can say, wonderful content. I'm glad I'm not living in the Victorian times, I probably wouldn'y have survived too long, lol.
Really enjoyed this!! Would you consider doing a series where you do similar things? I'd love to watch something on the life of a peasant family in the early 14th century
Interesting thing about the mourning, it was considered in poor taste to cease mourning the late king before his widow. Since queen victoria never came out of mourning, her subjects couldn't either, particularly the nobility.
The Sims, History, and Whiny Brit... Too good to be true😭😭😭 thank you very much for the video!! Would be very delighted if you could make more like this 😭😭😭💕💕💕💕
I'm loving this kind of format, super into fun facts and the Sims so it's a perfect combination of fun and informative
Just to clarify corsets were not oppressive in any way, and should not be painful
(Before I continue I just quickly want to say I mean no hate whatsoever this is just me correcting you on a common misconception which is often re-enforced by the media and I love video and especially the character designs though it did sort of bug me that the lady looked Edwardian I have tried making historically accurate sims using cc and it is impossible but yours look amazing)
Their purpose was not to make you appear slimmer as modern corsets are, rather to provide support similarly to bras and to be honest I want a corset as they look far more comfortable
The only things that should cause your corset to be painful is it it does but fit you (please do not buy cheap corsets unless it's for only fashion it needs to be fitted to you properly) you are wearing it on your bare skin(it will chafe and be extremely uncomfortable I imagine kind of like walking in wet boots without any socks or tights), or if you tight laced it ,tight lacing shouldn't even hurt that much from what people have said it's just a bit stiffer, tight lacing was done for fashion to help achieve the fashionable shape (fashion was more shape based then weight and this was largely achieved using padding and similar)
They most definitely did not shift your organs or damage your body(the only thing they could maybe do is cause your core muscle to deteriorate as it supported you and held your posture)
The majority of the papers saying this were A: written by men who did not normally wear the corsets, and B: written by doctors of the time, who as we accept as fact for every thing other than corsets had zero idea what they were doing(I mean they literally thought the uterus was suspended on strings )
Women also could move in corsets! There is photographic evidence of women climbing, riding bikes, etc and I think there were even sports corsets (though I am not sure if that is a Victorian thing)
So, in short corsets were not at all a bad thing and to anyone interested I recommend checking it Bernadette banner and Karolina zebrowska, as well as Abby Cox, Morgan Donner, and a whole load more people(the Catherine de medichi time travel society!) and if you want more just corset specific information I recommend looking at Lucy's corsetry
I've got one for you. Top three of the worst toddler/young child causes of death. This particular death certificate was actually circa the 191X or 192X.
Immigrant family. Young and with only one child so far, a little boy around 18 months old. Took some newspaper reports to really put it together due to the language divide.
Weekday, dad at work, mom at home with baby. It was summer if I recall. Mom was making fly paper.
Basically you took a bowl, put some sort of substrate (like old strips of cloth) and you soaked it in some kind of mixture that included arsenic.
Baby came along at some point and drank what was in the bowl.
Awful, awful stuff.
If you can dig up the series (three-part I think) "Victorian Pharmacy" done by the BBC, I think you'll LOVE it. That's where I learned about the arsenic poisoning and other horrible things, such as giving children opium to stop them crying. Thing is, many were crying because they were very hungry, but the opium just sort of...whacked them out. So they couldn't vocalise that they were starving or uncomfortable. Super dangerous.
Hey, I really liked this video, I knew of the Victorian facts, except why they had singer outside the barbershop 💈. A let’s play of Victorian times would be really nice. Also may a like play of a Victorian farm, would be good 😊.
Bringing up the barbers also doing small surgery’s- this had been around for quite a while and were often summarised as barber surgeons who would trim your hair and maybe pull a tooth out! 2 in 1 deal. (That’s my history revision done)
My special interest is the Victorian era more precisely the 1890s so I’m excited to see this!
Brit I’m so excited to see your halloween serious.. you should do maybe twin witches, or maybe give a large family a bunch of diseases to see who can die off first and who’s the last standing!
I actually really enjoyed this video! I think you should deffo do another, learnt more from this one video than I did my entire school years 😂 you make it sound more interesting lol x
All your videos are honestly awesome! Your mind and commentary is the best. 🌟🌟🌟
I’ve watched and rewatched the hidden killers episodes XD so - quite all things I knew. Another “Fun” job of the era was being a “Night Soil Man” ((or for Tudor era Gong Farmer! It’s more fun to say honestly)) and they were the guys that came around and cleaned your poo pit! XD ((the holes in the ground of the privies or if they had indoor ‘toilets’ in a much grosser fashion… your basement. Basement septic tank just makes me really glad I was born POST indoor plumbing ((also post them adding the lil swirly dongle in the back that made sure your loo didn’t explode)))
I really enjoyed this, honestly you could do fables and old fairytales like this. It'd be really funny
The photo of your relatives, loved the line grandad is smiling and grandma looks like she is sick of his shit 💀🤣 informative and fun thanks
Karla, you would love this, I actually work for an auction gallery here in the US and we've legit sold Victorian mourning jewelry that has lockets of dead children, either tin types or ambrotypes, with braided locks of hair. Some even woven hair as a type of bracelet chain. Full on gagged when I touched that to show someone. If scientists really wanted to, you could use this antique shit to clone ol' Matilda from Dorchester!
Really loved this video by the way! I love the Victorian and Gilded Age aesthetics, but SUPER glad we're in the modern age and not then, with all the arsenic wallpaper and lead poisoning.
I have a piece of mourning jewellery (not sure of the era, it was listed as Victorian but you never know). I love it but noticed the blonde hair in it has sort of discoloured over the years. It used to be a very bright blonde and now it's sort of dull, almost a very fair brown-green(!?) shade. Personally owning something made from a dead person's hair has never bothered me as it's probably one of the cleanest things you could turn into memorial jewellery. I definitely prefer it over teeth!
@@elixir2984 Omg I forgot about the teeth! History had unique jewelry, that's for sure!
Loved this! I’m always intrigued by the Victorian era, and would love to see more of this family!
yes yes yes i loved this video & the little facts you give about the time period i only going your page about a month ago snd been watching everything even from a year ago lol you’re so entertaining & funny i live for it
Barbershop Quartets! Omg I didn’t even make the connection. Thank you so much for this fantastic video
I did like it, you're the best storyteller ever 😛
This video is perfect for me atm I am doing Victober a read a thon and chose a dark Charles Dickens novel as one of the reads and this goes along with the ambiance perfectly.
I liked this video. You are so fun to listen to and I also enjoy learning weird history facts.
I also have some interest in the Victorian Era. Seeing a video like this was very interesting to watch and I would be happy if you did more.
Really enjoyed this. Teaching Victorian context to my Y7 English class tomorrow. Might add some of these nuggets!
i know this video is oldr but i absolutly loved it and would love more!
I really liked it!!! I love history and your NSFW sense of humor, so this was great!!!
WOW. Talk about me ACTUALLY listening and watching a video. (on any other video) I'll usually click off, scroll through some TS4 mods, look at my Amazon wishlist or some other task that cuts my attention in half, but this kept me glued to the screen. I loved these facts!!
ain't ya glad we don't live on those times anymore? tuh, I prolly woulda killed myself. lmao
next we need the foods the victorians loved, such as alum infused bread since they were obsessed with everything white and "clean"
Love this, Karla! History & the Sims. Who knew?
What a coincidence i just started playing the decades challenge and see this. I love history and sims so thank you for this. 😂💙
i really enjoyed this!! thanks for a really quirky and genuinely educational 16 minutes!
This was very fun. I would love to see some historically set dramas. Hell, OnlySims would have been a huge hit with the victorians if they'd had access, so there would be a rich amount of storytelling/gameplay that would work well, hell the high mortality rate would make for interesting gameplay for some of the darker mods.... Steampunk would be an awesome setting too...... Scandalous content options all over. :)
I love this video! I'm such a history need and absolutely adore this sort of thing! Please make more!!
The barber thing isn't just exclusive to the Victorian era. My grandfather was born in 1919 and was a trained barber. He was a masseur, chiropractor, and according to him as I never saw this myself, learned to do minor surgeries along with give precise cuts. (He however refused to ever cut my hair. The reason? I'm a girl.)
Tbh I find your voice so pleasant to listen to I don’t actually care what the content is sometimes 😂 but I love history so this was great, thank you
I found this video very entertaining, I love how you think outside of the box! Thank you!
The kids in this video probably died from head injuries from hitting their own heads with their toys! 😂😂😂
Ok I loved that, I really hope you do another one like that
I really loved this, the facts are so good! And your family pic you are so lucky we have very little pictures of anything before my grandparents.
Absolutely loved this video, thank you for making it. I'm so glad I found this channel.
Yes, I'd love more of this, please! This is RIGHT up my alley. 🥰🥰
I really enjoyed this video Karla it's interesting to know how people used to live would definitely be interested in more like this
This is officially my favorite video!! You’re amazing and I love your content!! ❤ All of your videos are so wonderful, hilarious, and amazing! I hope you’re doing well!
Im obsessed with videos like this!
Please make more Victorian fact videos because that is my favorite era and you are my favorite RUclipsr.
I love everything about this video. Please teach more weird history via sims videos xD
Please keep this up! I love just hearing you talk about facts in the background, very calming!