In a message dated 8/14/2006 2:42:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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That dress seems to me to smack of Little House on the Prairie. In my own
>mind, Heidi wears dirndls--maybe my childhood Heidi book dressed Heidi
>that way?
Perhaps the designer feared making it
That dress seems to me to smack of Little House on the Prairie. In my own
mind, Heidi wears dirndls--maybe my childhood Heidi book dressed Heidi
that way?
You're right. Austrian, German, and Swiss peasants could wear dresses that
look like dirndls. Folkwear (folkwear.com) has a pattern (#12
ical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Period for Heidi
That dress seems to me to smack of Little House on the Prairie. In my
own mind, Heidi wears dirndls--maybe my childhood Heidi book dressed
Heidi that way?
--R.A. Baumgartner
scholar gypsy and amateur costumer
On Aug 14, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Lloyd Mi
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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 l
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.
Kate Greenaway illustrations reflect what the Aesthetics were wearing in
the late-1870s-early-1880s. It's not mainstrea
Carolyn Kayta Barrows wrote:
Hi all! Does anyone know the decade that the Heidi story is supposed
to be
set in?
Published in 1880 with the first edition in English published in 1884,
the visual images we've come to associate with Heidi seem mostly to be
based on the illustrations done a bi
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Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Period for Heidi
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> >Hi all! Does anyone know the decade that the Heidi story is supposed to
be
> >set in?
>
> The girl in the wheelchair looks vaguely
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
Hi all! Does anyone know the decade that the Heidi story is supposed to be
set in? 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
