During the Victorian Era in England, people were very conscious about exposing their bodies to the opposite sex. The men would wear a suit that covers him from his feet to his neck. Wearing long gloves as well as a rather large hat as to have very little part of his natural body exposed. The same went for the women. She would wear very long dress as her undergarments covering even all of her legs. Her gloves went from fitting onto her hands to fitting snuggly past her elbow as well as a having a large hat to cover her head and much of her face.
Even in the public libraries this setup was to make sure very little contact was taken place between a man and a woman. On one side of the library, all the books written by men were kept where as on the complete opposite side of the library all books written by women were placed here as well. This was done as to prevent a book, written by a female author from being placed on the side of the library where books written by the males were located at. For if this did happen would result in nine months later having created a short story.
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