Well no. They had this type of sleeve for a little girl's dress. Someplace in fact I have a baby dress with these sleeves and they are stupidly large. It's as generic as it gets. I think at some point Marilla says that the sleeve sizes are getting ridicoulous and are waste of good fabric which is how I date the timeline of the book is by that statement. Silly I know but it's a clue to costumers that they are in the late part of the puff sleeved craze when some women as Ms. Abel pointed out so well, had frames or horsehair to support them much like the ones in the 130 and 40's (?) did. The older ones from 100 years before were actually bigger than the Gibson girl ones.
The problem is the movies make you think that the book takes place later than it does. And the costumes are off IMO by about 10 years off in one direction or another. The Rilla of Ingleside book clearly ends in 1918 (they give dates) shortly after the Armistice. In it Anne mourns her first grey hair then cheerfully admits she looks foward to no longer having red hair. Rilla is her youngest and last child and even taking in Joy the baby who died Rilla who is 19 in the last chapter couldn't have been born any early than 1899-1900 and Anne had been married at least 12 years IIRC when Rilla was born in Anne of Ingleside. Hope that helps to pin costuming dates down a bit better. And it's made me realize that I analyze children's literature WAY too much. Bice off to get a better hobby On 10/17/05, Gail & Scott Finke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Okay, I know what leg o'mutton sleeves are, but I was under the impression > that these were something different. Can't say why, exactly. But I thought > this was a little girl's style or variation of some kind, not a generic > 1890s style. Am I totally off-base? > > Gail Finke > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
