non-fashionable

Updated: May 21, 2025

The petticoat-string by which the youth of the non-fashionable class is tied to their mother, is a ligature not in use among the fashionable world; from the earliest period professional persons are employed in their education, and the mother never shows in the matter.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843