On Friday I wrote about some bizarre (to us) eighteenth-century children’s fashions. What became the dominant fashion for kids of the nineteenth century? Sailor suits. To look at photos and portraits of kids from that century, you’d be forgiven for wondering if platoons of kids had been conscripted into the navy, both in England and [...]
children’s fashion
I went to a baby shower a couple of weeks ago, and was amazed at all the adorable and functional baby clothing they make these days. Babies today are pretty lucky, considering what they used to be forced to wear. In seventeenth century Europe and America, babies started out life swaddled (tightly wrapped). The seventeenth-century [...]