Utility Combined with Elegance Product:Greetings card with the usual complement of

with the usual complement of dead and swollen dogs floating by

Both are scruffily dressed and are using walking sticks

Paul Dyson

Sarah Young with her mother and baby attempt to enter the church

Utility Combined with Elegance Product:Greetings card with the usual complement of'Utility Combined with Elegance', 1858. This cartoon is one of very many in Punch during the mid Victorian period which satirise women's fashions. One of Punch's favourite targets was the absurdity of the crinoline. Here, the lady's footman has to walk so far behind her in order not to tread on her skirts that the umbrella he carries is four times the size of an ordinary one and thus accommodates not only himself and his mistress, but a miscellany of