An amazing photo collection shows portraits of Victorian couples taken from between the late 1840s and 1850s.
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Note to self...Victorians were ugly as hell.
ReplyDeleteMarrying a first cousin seems to have been more common then. And a lot of these look like they're AT LEAST that closely related. And a couple might be mistaken for same-sex marriages. At least the wives look more manly than the husbands.
ReplyDeleteThey didn't smile and the mens hairstyles were quite ridiculous but may have been fashionable for the time.
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