Re: [h-cost] Children's fashions
Maggie wrote: It also strikes me that we are moving back to kids wearing miniature adult styles. I was thinking the same thing myself recently. I'm old enough to remember young boys routinely wearing short trousers (i.e. knee-length suit trousers, as distinct from casual shorts). Now that (a) most clothes are easily washable, and (b) adults are wearing casual styles more of the time, I don't think there's an obvious difference between adult and children's styles. Kate Bunting Librarian 17th century reenactor Derby, UK _ The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this email was sent to you in error, please notify the sender and delete this email. Please direct any concerns to info...@derby.ac.uk. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Children's fashions
About 20 years ago, when I was back on a college campus regularly, it appeared to me that the parents were borrowing from their children again. The moms and dads who brought their kids for campus tours were wearing the baggy shorts, footwear, Tshirts, and headgear of their children. But I see what you mean about kids' wearing grown up styles. We were in Spain just before First Communion time. They still sell traditional sailor suits for boys, but also man-style suits, except that they are decorated with braid and tassels--they looked like admirals, not common sailors! Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Kate Bunting k.m.bunt...@derby.ac.uk To: H-costume list h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Wed, Apr 3, 2013 4:52 am Subject: Re: [h-cost] Children's fashions Maggie wrote: It also strikes me that we are moving back to kids wearing miniature adult styles. I was thinking the same thing myself recently. I'm old enough to remember young boys routinely wearing short trousers (i.e. knee-length suit trousers, as distinct from casual shorts). Now that (a) most clothes are easily washable, and (b) adults are wearing casual styles more of the time, I don't think there's an obvious difference between adult and children's styles. Kate Bunting Librarian 17th century reenactor Derby, UK _ The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this email was sent to you in error, please notify the sender and delete this email. Please direct any concerns to info...@derby.ac.uk. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Children's fashions.
Something I've been pondering. In what era/decade/year/location/something else do you consider there to be a development of a separate fashion for children. By children I mean potty trained age and over. In the early 19th century there seemed to be a separate fashion for boys but not girls with the so called skeleton suit. But by the mid19th century they did a brief stint in pants and tunic then it was on to miniature adult styles. For girls I start seeing the separate styles by the 1840s and they were definitely there by the 1860s. However, I severely lack knowledge of earlier periods. Am I just not seeing the kids styles? It also strikes me that we are moving back to kids wearing miniature adult styles. Maggie Koenig Sent from my iPhone ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Children's fashions.
Actually, girls' dresses developed in the last quarter of the late 18th century and then, it appears, their mothers copied THEM. The Lady's Magazine in 1789 observed, All the sex now--from fifteen to fifty upwards (I should rather say downwards) appear in their white muslin frocks with broad sashes. Marie Antoinette's son appears to have been one of the first to appear in a distinctive little boy's suit. The writings of Enlightenment philosophers, such as John Locke and (that great hypocrite) Jean Jacques Rousseau, may have influenced how people dressed their children--giving them distinctive styles rather than dressing them as miniature adults. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Maggie Koenig hhalb94...@aol.com To: h-costume h-costume@mail.indra.com Sent: Sun, Mar 31, 2013 6:38 am Subject: [h-cost] Children's fashions. Something I've been pondering. In what era/decade/year/location/something else do you consider there to be a development of a separate fashion for children. By children I mean potty trained age and over. In the early 19th century there seemed to be a separate fashion for boys but not girls with the so called skeleton suit. But by the mid19th century they did a brief stint in pants and tunic then it was on to miniature adult styles. For girls I start seeing the separate styles by the 1840s and they were definitely there by the 1860s. However, I severely lack knowledge of earlier periods. Am I just not seeing the kids styles? It also strikes me that we are moving back to kids wearing miniature adult styles. Maggie Koenig Sent from my iPhone ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
