why did rich victorian women love to steal clothes?

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Sources:
When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store by Elaine Abelson
Gender, Medicine, and Consumer Culture in Victorian England: Creating the Kleptomaniac by Tammy Whitlock
Going on the Hoist: Women, Work, and Shoplifting in London, ca. 1890—1940 by William M. Meier
The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting by Rachel Shtier
http://www.politicsofpatents.org/2020...
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-164...