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Article: short but functional antiques and collecting antiques and collecting.(Flavor/Gracious Living)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 29, 2009
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By Terry Kovel
GETTING DRESSED was more complicated for a well-to-do woman in the 19th century. She wore undergarments, a camisole, petticoats, a laced corset, long stockings, shoes, a dress and accessories. To help with this project, furniture designers invented the slipper chair for the bedroom. It's a chair with short legs that put the seat about 15 inches from the floor instead of the more normal 17 to 18 inches. That meant it was possible to bend only slightly to reach your feet to put on slippers (shoes) and stockings. The slipper chair was not made until Victorian times. The earlier Chippendale and Sheraton chairs were all of regular height. Slipper chairs ...