Fashion

[handygal2]

The original shoppers were feminists. Here's an interesting article about how shopping centers, and eventually malls, evolved:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/27/the-secret-feminist-history-of-shopping/

[Snowpuppy]

What hogwash.

London in the 1800's had suburbs? Really? The middle class of America in the 1800's? 

The once venerable WaPo is getting more desperate every day.

[Justice4all]

@handygal2

Love that song, "Mamie, Don't You Feel Ashamie."

[Q4u]

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@Snowpuppy wrote:

What hogwash.

London in the 1800's had suburbs? Really? The middle class of America in the 1800's? 

The once venerable WaPo is getting more desperate every day.

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I respectfully disagree because at the beginning of the 19th Century London was the largest city in Europe.  

"The wealthiest of all sorts were to be found in detached villas in the leafy suburbs of Balham, Barnes, Hampstead, Highgate, Richmond and Sydenham. The growth of urban transport, though not without its problems, facilitated the move to the suburbs, making the daily trip to work in the centre easier as the century progressed. Indeed, from the second half of the century (1800's) the growth of the metropolitan population was almost entirely confined to the outer suburbs.

https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/London-life19th.jsp

The Middle Class in America started in roughly 1820 with the advent of the Industrial revolution and grew to be considered Middle Class around the mid-1800's.

http://www.educationaction.org/class-history.html