Historian Carl Raymond joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the Gilded Age. If John D. Rockefeller lived today, who would be the richest person: him or Elon Musk? When did the Gilded Age end? How long would it take for a Gilded Age woman to get ready? Answers to these questions and many more await on Gilded Age Support.
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00:00 – Gilded Age Support
00:14 – New money, old habits, better ballroom
01:02 – Belles, bustles, and bad intentions
02:01 – Gilded Age: Elden Ring DLC
02:46 – BBL dresses
03:44 – An appetite of monopolistic proportions
05:45 – The Rockefellers walked so modern tech CEOs could run
06:48 – The 1% of the 1%
08:36 – Musk vs. Rockefeller
09:18 – The ruthless robber barons
12:21 – Ballroom? Grand. Bathroom? Exclusive.
13:28 – High titles, low liquidity
14:47 – The party’s over, Vanderbilt
15:39 – Brb, fastening the 45 tiny buttons on my gown
17:07 – Gilded Age Manhattan vs. today
18:18 – “The only 400 people who matter”
19:52 – Table for 1 at the Oil-ive Garden
20:46 – Newport behavior
21:43 – Yellow journalism: the original fake news
22:43 – Murder! Murder! Read all about it
23:37 – Having everything is boring
24:53 – The Black 400
26:02 – Opera? Never heard of them, darling
26:44 – Catch me at the Guggenheim, how about that?
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I attempted to wear 2 sets of Spanx under a bday dress until I tried to sit/breath. No dice. I can’t imagine what these ladies went through just for a flex.
According to many of the dress historians on here, corsets, even when tight laced wouldn’t be uncomfortable
One question to clarify. When you talk about Rockefeller’ and Musk’s fortune, are you comparing Assets, Equity or Market Capitalization for each? To understand if the comparison is fair and not based on market speculations.
Back with popular demand 👏👏
You could most certainly sit normally while wearing a bustle. While perching with good posture was standard in formal company, relaxing or leaning back against a sofa or chaise lounge was common in private or family settings. Most mid-to-late 19th-century bustles were designed using flexible sprung steel bands (like the accordion-style “lobster tail” frame), soft down-filled tubes, or cotton-padded cushions. When you sit, the metal or padding naturally flexes, folds, or compresses. Because the bustle sits at the small of your back and hangs over the rear of your skirt rather than directly under your seat bones, your body makes direct contact with the chair, bench, or settee.
did shane just pick on a bustle?!?😂
4:05 those prices look just like today’s prices, except in dollars!
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