[I’m totally down for a chatelaine revival. Anyone? -egg]
Adrift in a sea of digital apps for every imaginable function, we often feel our needs are met better today than in any previous era. But consider the chatelaine, a device popularized in the 18th century that attached to the waist of a woman’s dress, bearing tiny useful accessories, from notebooks to knives. In many ways chatelaines provided better access to such objects than we have today: How often have you searched for your keys or cell phone at the bottom of a cavernous bag?
via The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women | Collectors Weekly.
Yes. We would look bitchin’ (If that were an appropriate thing to say in the Victorian Era, which it’s not, so I guess we’d look dapper as fuck).