Real 1832 versus the fictional 1832

Why is it important for us to know what people were like then?

Can you think of anything that may have been happening at the time?

England

Who was on the throne in 1832?

How did people travel around the country at the time?

What sort of clothes did people wear?

Task

In your group, you have 15 minutes to research what England was like in 1832.

Work together to find as much information as possible.

Women clothing in the 1832 was fashionable because of how their clothing was big and bright in different style of colours, they had large (leg of mutton or gigot) sleeves above the large skirts which frill outwards, the waist of their dresses was small and tight know as a corseting design which was narrow for the bulkiness between the top half and the bottom half of the women’s body to make the waist look a lot thinner than it was.

Hair was parted in the centre and dressed in elaborate curls, loops and knots extending out to both sides and up from the crown of the head. Braids were fashionable, and were likewise looped over either ear and gathered into a topknot

Men’s clothing was a lot simpler because men's fashion plates continue to show an ideal of a silhouette with broad shoulders, and a narrow, tightly cinched waist.

Frock coats increasingly replaced tail coats for informal day wear. They were just midway calf length, and might be double-breasted (short on the torso but easy enough to button up around the chest area. the Shoulder padding fell lower on the top part of the arm and the shoulders were sloped and puffed sleeve heads gradually shrank and then disappeared. The Waistcoats or vests were single- or double-breasted depending on what type of coats they wore.

Real 1832	Fictional 1832
King William the 4th was the real king at this time	King James the 3rd was the fake king at this time instead of William the 4th
Clothing was similar	Clothing was similar
Heavy steam trains which are too heavy and hard to get knocked of the tracks by animals.	Steam trains as they were in the real 1832, but they weren’t as heavy as the real ones in the 1832 and was able to be knocked of tracks or bordered by animals such as wolves.
Men were the more dominant and in control then the women and the women could not talk unless they are spoken too.
The channel tunnel wasn’t made until the late 1800’s and was finished in 1994	In the fictional 1832 it said that the channel tunnel was made and that’s how the wolves gotten through into England.
Orphans were treated badly because children were seen as liabilities that could be exploited	Sylvia is a lower class orphan who gets treated well and has the opportunity to live with her rich uncle.