This isn't about Charming per ce but it is about the era. Jack and I have been taking turns reading chapters of Pride & Prejudice out loud to each other, and we had just gotten past Elizabeth's first meeting with Miss Darcy. There was a line Jack read that was something like 'Elizabeth was saved from further inquiry by her aunt and uncle, however, by excusing herself to dress.'

Jack: ... Wait. Did she do all of that in her nightgown, or something? No wonder it was so awkward.
Lynn: No, no. She'd be going to dress for dinner. You have to change out of your day gown and into your evening gown.
Jack: That's a thing people did?
Lynn: Yeah, there'd be like a two hour period before every dinner where everyone would go get dressed up. That's why wealthy people back in that era didn't have jobs, or anything. Imagine if like six hours of your day was just spent getting ready for dinner, having dinner, having post-dinner drinks... every night. And that's only if you don't also have a ball to go to.
Jack: ... Olden people.
Lynn: Yeah.
Jack: They were stupid.