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--- Robin Netherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Carolyn Kayta Barrows wrote: > > > I'd say humor and satire magazines, like Punch, > would have more > > coverage of Aesthetic-style clothing than regular > fashion magazines. > > The Aesthetics weren't high fashion, they were > counter-culture, the > > Beatniks, Hippies, and Punks of their day. > > The Aesthetics themselves, yes -- they were not > quite respectable, and > some of them were considered scandalous. But just as > fashion-conscious > people in the 1960s and 70s adopted tie-dye and > denims from the hippies, > mainstream 19th century designers adopted a version > of the Aesthetic look > and tidied it up for fashionable wear. In 1884, a > high-fashion London > store, Liberty, opened a special department called > the Artistic and > Historic Costume Studio. This became the top > shopping spot of the > Aesthetic set, but it also got plenty of business > selling clothes with > "artistic" or "historical" elements to more > conventional shoppers. Stella > Mary Newton's book has some good information on > this, including some > pictures of fashion plates of artistic dress from > Harper's and a picture > of an extant artistic dress from Liberty. > > Punch did have good cartoons about the Aesthetes, > though. > > --Robin > > _______________________________________________ > 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
