Mawu akuti "namsongole wamasiye" amatanthauza zovala zofiira (makamaka) za akazi amasiye pa nthawi ya a Victori, zomwe zimatanthawuza " khalidwe lachisoni " lomwe linayendetsa khalidwe lawo ndi maonekedwe awo pambuyo pa imfa ya amuna awo.
Udzu wamasiye umakhala wovala wolemera, wakuda umene umabisa chiwerengero chazimayi, komanso "chophimba" chakuda pamutu ndi nkhope pamene akupita panja.
Kunja, akazi amavala "kapu yamasiye." Zinthuzi zinkapangidwira kapena kuzikongoletsera ndi nsalu, yokongoletsera (yosalongosola) nsalu yopangidwa ndi silika.
Mphamvu ya Mfumukazi Victoria
Udzu wamasiye umagwirizanitsidwa ndi nthawi ya Victoriy, yomwe imatanthauzidwa ndi ulamuliro wa Queen Victoria, 1837 mpaka 1901. Powonedwa poyera ngati khalidwe labwino laumunthu ndi khalidwe labwino, Mfumukazi Victoria inakhudzidwa kwambiri ndi malingaliro ndi machitidwe aumunthu osati a iye yekha anthu ku United Kingdom komanso anthu padziko lonse lapansi. Pambuyo pa imfa ya mwamuna wake, Prince Albert, mu 1861, adadzipatula yekha ndipo adakhala nthawi yayitali. Kuyambira nthawi imeneyi kufikira imfa yake zaka makumi anayi pambuyo pake, mfumukaziyi idali kuvala zovala zolira: mdima wandiweyani, wokhala ndi mdima wokonzeka kulemekeza womwalirayo.
Panthawi ya ulamuliro wa mfumukazi, malo oyamba "akulira," "odzaza" kapena "akuya" ku Victorian England adanena kuti mkazi ayenera kuvala namsongole wamasiye.
Nthawi imeneyi ikhoza kukhalapo kwa zoposa chaka chimodzi pambuyo pa imfa ya wokondedwa . Mkazi wamasiye atachoka panyumba pake, ngakhale zipangizo zake, monga nsapato zake, ambulera, thumba, ndi zina zotero, zinali zakuda komanso zooneka bwino. Panthawi ya kulira koyamba pambuyo pa imfa ya mwamuna wake, Mfumukazi Victoria ankavala zodzikongoletsera zopangidwa ndi "jet," mtundu wina wa mpweya wofanana ndi umene umakhala wofanana ndi wozungulira wakuda ndi wakuda wakuda, omwe onse amafanana ndi galasi lakuda.
(Mwachidziwikire, apa ndi pamene mawu amasiku ano akuti "jet-black" amachokera.)
Ngakhale kuti miyambo yokhudza khalidwe ndi kavalidwe pambuyo pa imfa inawamasula pang'ono pambuyo pa imfa ya Mfumukazi Victoria mu 1901, mphamvu yake ikupitirira lero. Ambiri a ife timaganizabe kuti tiyenera kuvala zovala zakuda kapena zakukhosi kumaliro kapena ku chikumbutso (ngakhale kuti lingaliroli likuchepa pang'onopang'ono).
Mwa njira, ngati mawu akuti "namsongole" akuwoneka osamvetsetseka, muzindikire kuti mawuwa amachokera ku liwu lakale la Chingerezi la "chovala, chovala, zovala, zovala kapena zovala." Mawu amenewa amachokera etymologically kuchokera ku proto-Indo-European mawu wedh , omwe amatanthawuza "kuluka," zomwe zimakhudzana ndi nsalu.
> Zotsatira:
"Mbiri Yakalembedwe: Mgwirizano wa Victorian Garb," ndi Kyshah Hell. Malingaliro Oopsya. Inabweretsedwa pa August 26, 2014.
> "Zovala ndi maliro," ndi Alison Petch. England: The Other Within.
> "namsongole (n.)." Online Etymology Dictionary.