(December 13, 2021 at 7:41 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Limping was a fad in Victorian England. Young women admired the genuine limp of Alexandra of Denmark, bride of the Prince of Wales, and went around fake limping (the “Alexandra Limp.”) Shopkeepers even sold pairs of shoes with one high heel and one low.
In much the same way it was fashionable for young men and even boys of Victorian and Edwardian era affected the need for a cane to walk.
From the 1880s all thar way y\to 1920d , there was also something of a maybe equivalent of modern Goth fad. It was the tuberculosis fad, which young women would pretend to cough and wheeze, wear make up design to create appearance of sickliness and emaciation, all to affect being afflicted with terminal tuberculosis. Apparently being doomed to die young was considered terribly romantic and particularly attractive to considerate and gentlemanly young men.
