GILDED AGE Fun fact: If you wanted to go dancing at the Moulin de la Galette after visiting House of Worth for your gowns (of course!), you went in plain clothing without jewels or a lot of money. You took a public fiacre and stayed to enjoy the small band that played for the guests!
GILDED AGE Fun fact: If your papa or mama wanted to purchase paintings for their new Fifth Avenue or Newport homes, they went to Paris to a certain art dealer. He sold them art for inexpensive sums by Parisian painters whom few knew. They included those whose work was not accepted by the Paris Salon, like Monet, Renoir and a few ladies, too, like Berthe Morisot and American Mary Cassatt.
GILDED AGE Fun fact: Traveling to Brighton for a summer holiday could be done via private carriage or after 1865, by the new railroad line. Numerous trips per day were the schedule and one could go in the morning and return to London late at night. The upper classes could rent houses or rooms in hotels. There they could dine in their rooms or in the dining rooms. But they could also rent the ballrooms and host parties as lavish as they wished. While there, the middle and lower classes could swim, without or without a bathing machine. But you could inhale the sea salt air, eat ice cream and fresh seafood. Walk the pier. All for an affordable price.
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