What class are you teaching? Theater costume, history of costume? Seems to me, you can rate how "good" the costumes are by comparing to known English dress of the period, and thus determine how good your student's analysis is. However, as has happened with many things, I think the whole "Dickens" thing, and especially "A Christmas Carol," has become stylized and there are probably elements that have come to be expected, whether they were originally authentic or not. I imagine the 1938 film has heavily influenced all subsequent productions, except, of course, for those deliberately set in other time periods. And also, of course, there is the extra wrinkle of designing costumes for puppets! Ann Wass
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