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in the 19th century to show the status of women in a wealthy household. The woman with the keys to all the many desks, chest of drawers, food hampers, pantries, storage containers, and many other locked cabinets was "the woman of the household". As such, she was the one who would direct the servants,
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Younger women and daughters in the house often wanted the appearance of this responsibility, and would often wear decorative chatelaines with a variety of small objects in the place of keys, especially bright and glittering objects that could be used to start a conversation. In the case of the
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women wore chatelaine that were rectangular and had a central section consisting of mail. A number of metal spirals were present across the chain's spiral. Each one had a perforated disk of metal. This kind of clothing originated from the
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housemaids, cooks and delivery servicemen and would open or lock the access to the valuables of the house, possessing total authority over who had access to what.
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Chatelaine bags refer to bags suspended from a waistband by cord or chain, which were popular from the 1860s to the end of the 19th century.
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for the most wealthy. Similar jewelry was also worn by Anglo-Saxon women, as seen from the burial record, but their function is uncertain.
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which meant the mistress of a chateau. She would have worn a belt for her keys, which the current meaning of chatelaine derives from.
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The remnants of chatelaines and chatelaine bags have been found in the graves of women in the seventh and eighth century in the
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Frequently, this hostess was the senior woman of the house. When a woman married and moved into her
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Chatelaines were worn by many housekeepers in the 19th century and in the 16th century
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suspended from it. Each chain is mounted with useful household appendages such as
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absence of a woman of the house, the controller of the keys was often a hired
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Cleland, Liza; Davies, Glenys; Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd (2007).
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Artefacts in Roman Britain : their purpose and use
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Miriam Webster Online Dictionary. Accessed 28 June 2020
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Chatelaine

Victoria and Albert Museum

Hallwyl Museum
belt hook
waist
chains
scissors
thimbles
watches
keys
smelling salts
household seals
châtelaine
Samnite
Picentes
ear scoops
United Kingdom
Dutch Republic
watch chains
keychain
father-in-law
housekeeper
Incomplete Roman chatelaine
Early Medieval chatelaine fitting
"Chatelaine."
Chatelaine
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