It can be difficult to explain why The Victorians insisted on covering the Legs of Tables

My understanding of this is that it's actually a kind of urban myth. If you look at actual photographs of Victorian interiors, you won't see any covered legs. Plenty of drapes and cloths over table tops, but legs of tables, chairs and other furniture are not covered! There was prudery around in part of the Victorian period in parts of that society, but far less than we might suppose now.