The girls' dresses look very "Kate Greenway" to me. I am not sure when this style was vogue. The Kate Greenway paperdoll book has a lot of illustrations of those designs.
Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Kayta Barrows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Period for Heidi > > >Hi all! Does anyone know the decade that the Heidi story is supposed to be > >set in? > > The girl in the wheelchair looks vaguely like mid-1880s. In another one of > those 39 images, it looks like there's an adult woman wearing a mid-1880s > dress and hat. In no other image is the year, or even the decade, or even > the country, apparent. > > > I'm especially interested in the orange dress here: > >_http://tinyurl.com/qfsak_ (http://tinyurl.com/qfsak) > > > >Is there a name for this type of little-girl dress? Is the petticoat > >underneath probably just a skirt, or would it be a whole dress? The reason > >I'm > >asking is that I'm making a doll and this is just the kind of dress I > >had pictured > >for her. I will be making the rest of her family later and I suppose I > >should think about making them all match. :) > > The orange dress looks "old-timey" to me. That is to say "Hollywood > historical". I've never seen any photos of any little girl wearing a dress > with a high waist like your orange one. I've only seen Napoleonic fashion > plates of such things, and I don't believe that period for this film. > > CarolynKayta Barrows > dollmaker, fibre artist, textillian > www.FunStuft.com > > ///\\\\\ > ////-@@\\\ > (((( 7 ))) > )(( <> ))( > * ) ( * > /----\ /---\ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
