The upper-classes embraced leisure sports, which resulted in rapid developments in fashion, as more mobile and flexible clothing styles were needed. During the Edwardian era, women wore a very tight corset, or bodice, and dressed in long skirts. The Edwardian era was the last time women wore corsets in everyday life. According to Arthur Marwick, the most striking change of all the developments that occurred during the Great War was the modification in women’s dress, “for, however far politicians were to put the clocks back in other steeples in the years after the war, no one ever put the lost inches back on the hems of women’s skirts”. Here is a photo collection from LovedayLemon that show everyday life of Edwardians.
Dancing in the open air
Four women tend a stall selling hand-made items
Having tea by the sea
In the Edwardian beach hut
Ladies at the seaside
Drying off in the sand dunes
Nurses gardening
Rose sellers on Alexandra Day
Young men, and a dog, having a picnic
A children’s outdoor tea party
At a garden party
At an Edwardian picnic
Edwardian family having tea in the garden
People in a garden party
Edwardian group on the beach
People in a picnic
via LovedayLemon
