Alice In Wonderland: A History Of Children'S Clothing In Europe

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"Prototype", she owns her own fairy tale that has influenced the whole world and has been popular for hundreds of years. For little girls, it is just like the miss Marie who suddenly became a heroine in the soap opera.

The only thing missing is that most of the women in other fairy tales are the princess of the stars, but Alice is just a little girl in the middle class family in Vitoria, England.

If we did not give her a handsome and affectionate prince charming because of the suspicion of puppy love, it would be a pity to be a heroine without a beautiful skirt like a princess.

Even the "long hair girl" has been upgraded to "long hair Princess" and Mulan has joined the "long hair Princess".

"Disney", as one of the few civilian and underage heroines in the Disney world, is particularly plain in the sky blue dress and white apron set by Alice in the animation version.

The real movie version of Alice seems too far ahead.

In addition, he wore the fashionable shoulder.

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So what does Alice's clothes look like?

Before modern times, Westerners had no concept of children. In their eyes, children were "little adults". They had nothing special or need special care, only a diminished version of adults.

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Children and adults

It's not very different. Basically, it's just adults.

The diminished version, but the length of the skirt is different. The skirt length of the little girl has just passed the knee. When they grow to about ten years old, the skirt length reaches the calf, and when they grow to the age of sixteen, the skirt length is as long as the adult dress to the instep.

Although in order to let every little girl become a "little Gong Ju", there are many things in modern times.

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And the lotus leaf.

But unlike in nineteenth Century, the little girl wore more than a garish dress.

First, they will wear stockings and trousers like trousers and knickers, and put them on the outside.

Or a skirt, so that the skirt on the outermost layer can be lifted up.

The upper class girls will be wearing the same bra and skirt as adults.

But little girls' corsets are often not as aggressive as hard metal materials such as metals for adult women. Most of them are made of soft materials.

Outside these layers of clothes are beautiful little skirts.

The sleeves of the skirt can be long and short, and the appearance is often accompanied by the fashion of adult women's clothing.

In John Tenniel "Alice in Wonderland" illustrations as the original version of the children's version of Alice, Alice's skirt was popular at that time.

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In his illustration of the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the adventures of Alice's mirror, when Alice became Queen, she wore the "Poland style" skirt and the front and rear warped skirt of the bustle, which was also very popular at that time.

The skirt of a little girl usually wears a one-piece apron called pinafore. The main function is to prevent the little girls from smear their little skirts.

In the illustrations of John Tenniel, Alice is wearing a similar white apron. Disney's animation also uses this image.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice's apron is more homespun, while the sequel is added.

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Decoration is more like going to a banquet or going out.

Another kind of clothing that the little girl often wore and functionally similar to pinafore was called smock-frock. It was originally used to describe a long blouse worn by European working people to prevent their clothes from getting dirty. However, by the middle of nineteenth Century, few people in the English countryside had been dressed. But smock-frock had been pformed into a fashionable element of women's clothing and children's clothing after being improved, and the style became garish. Most of them were made of fine cotton and linen fabrics, and some of them were decorated with lace and embroidery.

In addition to pinafore, pinafore is sleeveless and its back is hollowed. Smock-frock is a full coat with back and sleeves.

Because of the impression of Disney's animation version, Alice's skirt seems to be blue.

But in the children's edition of Alice, Alice is dressed in yellow.

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No matter yellow, blue or pink, they were the common colors of girls' clothes at that time.

Boys, however, are not so lucky that they can only wear blue and other dark colors, or they will be considered a lack of manhood.

Interestingly, in order to facilitate diapers, boys used to wear small skirts like girls before they were five years old.

Although Alice only wore a gorgeous dress for a while in "the adventures of the mirror", her fantastic story was still fascinating after more than 100 years.

Hearts, playing cards, rabbits, top hat, Cheshire Cat...

Each element is fully recognizable and allows people to connect with Alice immediately.

Whether it is designer brand, such as Marc Jacobs, or

Uniqlo, or is it Japanese subculture?

Brand Baby the Stars Shine Bright and Angelic Pretty have all worked together with Disney to launch the Alice series.

In 2003, Vogue magazine specifically sought 10 famous designers, such as Tom Ford, Karl Lagerfeld, Donatella Versace, etc., together with the famous model Natalia Vodianova to deduce the roles of Alice series.

Although Alice is just an ordinary girl who likes to dream, but for me and many girls who love this story, she is more lovely than the princess.