We have been studying Worth, the crinoline,

.. and the sewing machine as we discuss the factors that made the Early Victorian Era change into the Mid Victorian Era.  There are many other design houses worthy of note, but extensive discussion of these are already on the website, so we will move ahead to the 4th and final factor that defined the Mid-Victorian era.

That key factor was – DYE.

No, not “DIE”, as in what this little girl of 1860, the first year of the Mid-Victorian era, is doing to this poor dog. (Remember we were looking at cats and dogs way back when we started this journey about the Victorian Era..?  We didn’t forget…)