English Children's Costume 1775-1920
By Iris Brooke
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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