"They were, but that's because Victorians were terribly repressed." They created table skirts because even table legs were scandalous. "Haven't you heard of all those bodice rippers, and opium-filled brothels with crushed velvet and black lace?" Maybe she was alone in that.

"I'm sure stripping was part of work in those brothels." She wouldn't know what it was like to work in a brothel now, anyway. Better, she imagined. But worse all at the same time.