Victorian Fashion, Classes Cartoons from Punch magazine

A Serious Drawback. Hideous old lady of fashion (with plain daughter). "Charming ball at Sir Charles's last night. Everybody there -- good rooms, not overcrowded -- capital supper! Dearest Barbara enjoyed herself prodigiously! I don't see, however, how I can well avoid asking his sister and niece to my ball, next week, he is so fond of them; and yet you know that they are people who do not go out nearly as much as we do, and are not at all in our position in society!"

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A Serious Drawback. Hideous old lady of fashion (with plain daughter). "Charming ball at Sir Charles's last night. Everybody there -- good rooms, not overcrowded -- capital supper! Dearest Barbara enjoyed herself prodigiously! I don't see, however, how I can well avoid asking his sister and niece to my ball, next week, he is so fond of them; and yet you know that they are people who do not go out nearly as much as we do, and are not at all in our position in society!"