1854 The female emigrant's guide, and hints on Canadian housekeeping

Published in 1854.
Author Catherine Parr Strickland Traill wrote over 22 books in her lifetime. She was born 1802 in Rotherhithe, located SE of London. She immigrated to Canada around 1832.
She offers first hand advise from economic decorating "front room", foraging for wild foods, gardening/preserving harvest & creating a home in the Canadian Wilderness.

Fascinating insight to first hand experience of one of the original Canadian homesteaders.

Here is a sample from pages 22-23 sensible dressing versus high fashion

to enjoy the insight of this wonderful author here is the link to entire book. As I've said before, new things are not so new
https://archive.org/stream/cihm_41417#page/n37/mode/2up