I believe that Kate Greenaway's typical pictures interpreted the children's fashions of the Regency era (though she did portray other styles in some of her book illustrations). According to the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Greenaway , it was the Aesthetic movement that imitated her rather than the other way round.
Kate Bunting Librarian and 17th century reenactor >>> Stephanie Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 15/08/2006 08:35 >>> CarolynKayta Barrows replied: > Kate Greenaway illustrations reflect what the > Aesthetics were wearing in the late-1870s-early-1880s. It's not mainstream. The woman was a > commercial illustrator, not a fashion historian. But isn't a fashion historian a modern construct, and by definition one who looks at the past and not the present? ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
