**I must have missed the first part of this. Who is Kate Greenaway?
Kate Greenaway (Kate Greenaway medal for children's book illustration) was
a children's book illustrator active in the 1880s, and a contemporary of
Randolph Caldecot (Caldecot medal for children's picture books) and Walter
Crane. Googling on her name finds:
http://www.ortakales.com/illustrators/Greenaway.html bio
http://www.geocities.com/loveillust/kg/kgreenaway.html images
I have reprints of her Pied Piper of Hamlyn, Language of Flowers, and
probably several others I can't recall at the moment. All her
illustrations show reproducible costumes, which is lots of fun.
(My personal favorite one-period-interprets-another is the early 1920s
doing American colonial 1770s, complete with the dropped early-20s
waist. I actively collect examples of this.)
**Can you put this up in files or on your website? I'd love to see
this. What a scream.
I'll see what I can do. I think they are all in storage at the moment.
> Most people don't realize that what they're wearing right now, like as
> they're reading this e-mail, will be considered historical 100 years
from now.
**I do. I think about what a reenactor from the future might wear to
portray the turn of the century. Maybe Levis and T-shirts for both men
and women. (Hmmm...how could those folks tell men from women back
then. And both men and women could have any length hair. Weird ;-)
Think about it: Men's hairstyles and women's hairstyles are somewhat
different for the same length of hair, and the shoes will be different too,
not to mention a slight possible difference in the cut of the t-shirt. A
bad costume book, 100 years from now, will document this whole look in one
image, and a good one will catch the subtle differences. Hollywood will
still probably do it wrong...
CarolynKayta Barrows
dollmaker, fibre artist, textillian
www.FunStuft.com
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