>>96268542
>Same with pineapples, they used to have banquets just to show off that they had managed to secure the presence of one (1) single pineapple. They rented that one pineapple and then returned it for the next rich dipshit to rent until it rotted away.

That was never the real elites, that was the aspirational middle class.

Also, this
>Gelatin was once an elite food because only someone with a full time kitchen staff could actually have it made regularly.

is bullshit. Making gelatin by hand takes some time, but no more skill than any housewife had before the 50s.

>There's records of nobility complaining about the heavy, hot outfits they have to wear, but playing your role properly is one of the expectations.

I actually recently saw a YouTube video about how annoyed English ladies were by the incredibly old-fashioned court dress that Queen Charlotte made them all wear.

By this time, everyone was wearing the Regency-era dresses you're thinking of from Jane Austen movies with the "waistline" just under the boobies and dresses being generally very fine and honestly kinda comfortable-looking.