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    Minerva McGonagall lived in late Victorian Britain as the daughter of a muggle reverend father and a witch mother. Teaching was one of the few acceptable professions for women at the time, and McGonagall became a teacher to avoid the domestic struggles of her parents' marriage. As a teacher in the 1880s, she would have earned a respectable salary of around £700 per year, with free accommodation and meals. Her fashion choices as a conservative but stylish woman would have reflected the modest silhouettes of the Victorian era, including corsets, bustles, and full skirts.

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    Minerva McGonagall lived in late Victorian Britain as the daughter of a muggle reverend father and a witch mother. Teaching was one of the few acceptable professions for women at the time, and McGonagall became a teacher to avoid the domestic struggles of her parents' marriage. As a teacher in the 1880s, she would have earned a respectable salary of around £700 per year, with free accommodation and meals. Her fashion choices as a conservative but stylish woman would have reflected the modest silhouettes of the Victorian era, including corsets, bustles, and full skirts.

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    Minerva McGonagall lived in late Victorian Britain as the daughter of a muggle reverend father and a witch mother. Teaching was one of the few acceptable professions for women at the time, and McGonagall became a teacher to avoid the domestic struggles of her parents' marriage. As a teacher in the 1880s, she would have earned a respectable salary of around £700 per year, with free accommodation and meals. Her fashion choices as a conservative but stylish woman would have reflected the modest silhouettes of the Victorian era, including corsets, bustles, and full skirts.

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    Minerva McGonagall lived in late Victorian Britain as the daughter of a muggle reverend father and a witch mother. Teaching was one of the few acceptable professions for women at the time, and McGonagall became a teacher to avoid the domestic struggles of her parents' marriage. As a teacher in the 1880s, she would have earned a respectable salary of around £700 per year, with free accommodation and meals. Her fashion choices as a conservative but stylish woman would have reflected the modest silhouettes of the Victorian era, including corsets, bustles, and full skirts.

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    McGonagall’s undies in the

    1880s
    Vee
    Personal life
    Oldest child, only daughter

    Muggle rev father, closeted witch


    mother

    Frugal mother stretched small salary

    Tension between parents over magic

    Similar in temperament to Dad, but


    magical flair and longing like Mum

    (Rowling, 2015b)
    Victorian Era
    Queen Victoria, motherhood, femininity,
    respectability, family, deferent to husband, high
    moral standard → similar to McGonagall’s
    parents

    McGonagall broke off engagement with Muggle


    farmer boy. She didn’t want the same struggles
    as her parents.

    Teaching was one of the acceptable professions


    for women → close to child rearing.

    Rise of the middle classes


    (Audin, 2015; British Literature Wiki, n.d.; Cassells
    Household Guide, c.1880s; Rowling, 2015b)
    Teaching salary

    Teachers were in high demand, qualifications


    not always necessary

    High-class teachers, higher qualifications


    £300-2000 p.a

    Excelled in school

    £700 ~ £46,329.29 = $81,686.65

    Free accommodation and meals

    Long tenure at Hogwarts, Deputy Head (Cassells Household Guide, c. 1880s;


    The National Archives, n.d.)
    Minerva
    Has enough funds to get nice things

    Clothing should be as close to Muggle


    fashion as possible

    Conservative but still a classy lady

    Changed career path because she


    missed Scotland

    Green (and purple) signal to other


    magical folk
    (Rowling, 2015a; Rowling, 2015b)
    It’s fantasy
    (Silhouettes, n.d.a; Silhouettes, n.d.b;
    Waugh, 1954, p. 81-83, 102, 109)
    Elegant article of a lady’s wardrobe

    Bones held in place by a variety of embroidery


    stitches (Waugh, 1954)

    Padding around bust and hips to provide right curves


    (Audin, 2015, Chapter 10)
    (Atelier Nostalgia, 2017; Before the Automobile, 2019;
    Silhouettes, n.d.c)
    Corset - design concept
    Evolution of the tournure

    Waugh, 1954
    Making Victorian costumes for women
    “make sure that the design is simple; failure too often ensues from
    attempting too much” - Cassell’s Family Magazine (Chapter 4)

    Bright colours became fashionable after aniline dyes in 1856

    2nd bustle phase worn lower down that angled out more (Chapter 5)

    Without trains for everyday walking, tubular, circumference around


    hem 183cm.

    Petticoats of a contrasting colour (Chapter 11)

    (Audin, 2015)
    Diagram of foundation skirt
    and cushion 1888, back and
    side view 1884 (Arnold, 1977,
    p. 10-11)
    Variations of the bustle
    Separate article from the petticoat
    in short form 1883 for walking
    (Cunnington & Cunnington, 1951,
    p. 283)

    (Waugh, 1954; Waugh, 1968)


    The cut of women’s clothes
    1880s crinolette→ either separate steel frames or
    petticoats with steels inserted behind.

    Basic cut → gored skirt with back fullness gathered at the


    waist or pleated into 3-4 inches and front width gored

    Front skirt straight fullness around the sides to the back.

    Foundation skirt fitted around the hips with darts.

    Mid 80s bustle incorporated into foundation skirt. 3-4


    rows of steels then tied underneath plus horsehair pad

    1883 3 steels. Lowest 27 inches from the hem 22in long,


    then 18 and 13in kept out by small mattress 8x5in or by
    small crinolette tied by strings

    (Waugh, 1968) 1883 Afternoon dress; 1888 Day dress


    1887-1889 Day Dress

    1887-89 (Arnold, 1977, p. 38-39)


    The phantom bustle

    Bustles made of sprung steel


    that collapsed when the
    wearer sat down. (Audin,
    2015)

    Collapsed in on themselves
    when a lady sat down
    (Matthews, 2018, p. 116)

    (Victoria and Albert Museum, n.d.)


    Finally, my very underwhelming rough sketch of my silhouette
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