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    English Children's Costume 1775-1920
    English Children's Costume 1775-1920
    English Children's Costume 1775-1920
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    English Children's Costume 1775-1920

    By Iris Brooke

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    Late in the 18th century, English children's apparel began to look different from that worn by their elders. The reason, says writer James Laver in his introduction, is that someone finally realized children were different! This engaging book records those changes, with illustrations depicting styles at five- or ten-year intervals, from 1775 to 1920. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateDec 25, 2012
    ISBN9780486147314
    English Children's Costume 1775-1920

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      English Children's Costume 1775-1920 - Iris Brooke

      1855

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2003, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1930 by A. & C. Black, Ltd., London. The eight full-color plates are reproduced in black and white in their original positions in the book, as well as shown in color on the covers in somewhat reduced form.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Brooke, Iris.

      [English children’s costume since 1775]

      English children’s costume, 1775-1920 / drawn and described by Iris Brooke; with an introduction by James Laver.

      p. cm.

      Originally published: English children’s costume since 1775. London : A. & - C. Black, 1930.

      9780486147314

      1. Children’s costume—History. 2. Costume—Great Britain—History. I. Title.

      GT1730.B7B76 2003

      646.4’78—dc21

      2003053283

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      INTRODUCTION

      AUTHOR’S PREFACE

      1775

      1775—1795

      1795

      1800

      1800—1805

      1805—1810

      1810

      1810—1815

      1815—1820

      1820

      1820—1825

      1825—1830

      1830

      1830—1835

      1835—1840

      1840

      1840—1845

      1845—1850

      1850

      1850—1855

      1855—1860

      1860

      1860—1865

      1865—1870

      1870

      1870—1875

      1875—1880

      1880

      1880—1885

      1885—1890

      1890

      1890—1895

      1895—1900

      1900

      1900—1905

      1905—1910

      1910

      1910—1915

      1915—1920

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      INTRODUCTION

      IT is no accident that the third quarter of the eighteenth century is the period when the costume of children begins to be distinguishable from that of their elders. In previous ages children had not been looked upon as children, but as incomplete and inferior men and women, wicked by natural impulse and not yet capable of restraining their inevitable tendency to evil by the help of reason and experience. But towards the end of the eighteenth century the rigour of theological dogma had broken down. The doctrine of Original Sin gave place to the notion that man was born free, and is now everywhere in chains. Man came to be looked upon as a radiant being spoiled by civilisation. His faults were the faults of the world in which he lived, his virtues were all his own.

      The results of such a doctrine were both good and evil, and the impulse which induced Rousseau to glorify the noble savage and Marie Antoinette to play at being a milkmaid led inevitably to many incongruous but connected things : a new humanitarianism, a new sentimentality, the reformation of prisons, the abolition of slavery, and the deification of the child.

      The notion that children are necessarily better than their elders we need not believe, especially since Freud and his friends have let us into the secret of the awful things that children think ; but the belief that they are different is surely pure gain. If the distinction has been blurred in our own day it is less because children are expected to behave like adults than because adults are so willing to behave like children. The modern passion for sport of all kinds, whatever its benefits, is essentially part of the victory of the child. The early eighteenth-century child could not play in comfort because he was dressed like his father in periwig, long coat, and sword; the twentieth-century man, when he wishes to play, is compelled to dress like his son. Indeed, until the recent, and perhaps temporary, reaction towards longer skirts, there was a general tendency to make the dress of adults of both sexes more and more like the dress of children.

      This tendency has made itself felt ever since there was a special children’s dress at all. As Miss Brooke points out (and her charming drawings tell the same tale), boys

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