Merry Christmas!

 We hope everyone has had a festive and delightful Christmas Day!

First Christmas Stamp

 Happy Christmas Eve!

We hope everyone is staying warm and enjoying time with your family and friends.

Here is a picture of the very first Christmas Stamp ever, and it was Canadian!

December Fashion friday

 This is a great video montage from Asta Darling on FB.

Enjoy 

The Victorian Society of Alberta

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Anything you can do I can do better 🎶 Here’s to the fearless women who came before us and paved the way 🥂

“By the turn of the century The Queen in October 1903 relates how ‘many a skirted climber’ had reached the Needle, which juts out from Lake District peak the Great Gable. But several obstacles faced these pioneering women: the difficulty of obtaining proper clothing for their task, and the lack of a mountaineering organisation that would allow them to join."

But The Queen was on hand to provide advice to women on how to dress for mountaineering. The main taboo when it came to dressing for climbing centred on the skirt: practicality and safety dictated that it should be abandoned, but the moral code of the day meant that it should be retained. The Queen in 1890 writes how:

"Some ladies dispense with skirts altogether, and lay them aside with the other impedimenta when climbing really begins. But this requires some little courage, and by carefully arranging the length of the skirt, it may be worn without inconvenience. It must, however, be capable of being shortened so as to cover the knees; anything longer than this is certainly inconvenient, if not actually dangerous.”

December Book Tuesday

 Oops missed last week but here is one for the season.

Enjoy
The Victorian Society of Alberta

The Victorian Christmas book 

by Antony Miall (Author)

Diaries, novels, poems, letters, and magazines of the period contribute to a comprehensive survey of the customs, traditions, and flavor of Christmas in Victorian England, while greeting cards, toys, cartoons, advertisements, and engravings provide visual delight.