Re: [h-cost] Period for Heidi

2006-08-14 Thread Lloyd Mitchell
] 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 like there's an adult woman

Re: [h-cost] Period for Heidi

2006-08-14 Thread Hope Greenberg
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

Re: [h-cost] Period for Heidi

2006-08-14 Thread Carolyn Kayta Barrows
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

Re: [h-cost] Period for Heidi

2006-08-14 Thread Ruth Anne Baumgartner
: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 like there's an adult woman wearing a mid-1880s dress

Re: [h-cost] Period for Heidi

2006-08-14 Thread Carolyn Kayta Barrows
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

Re: [h-cost] Period for Heidi

2006-08-14 Thread AlbertCat
In a message dated 8/14/2006 2:42:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

[h-cost] Period for Heidi

2006-08-13 Thread TeaRoseS
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

Re: [h-cost] Period for Heidi

2006-08-13 Thread Carolyn Kayta Barrows
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