Dressing the Part: Kinderbekleidung in Regency
Kinderbekleidung in Regency und wie sie sich entwickelt hat
Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte, um 1770, begannen Kinder, Kleidung zu haben, die nur für sie entworfen wurde; sie waren nicht mehr als Miniatur-Erwachsene verkleidet. Das merkt man sehr deutlich an den Porträts der damaligen Zeit, die Erwachsenen tragen noch steife formelle Kostüme, während die Kinder entspannt und frei wirken; die Jungen in Hemden, die am Hals offen sind, die Mädchen in einfachen Kleidern mit einer Schärpe an der Taille.

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quote from this article “…The most significant fact is that what the children wore gradually became the model for adult clothes. Thus, a young girl born about 1770 would wear almost the same style until she was 50!…”
This article indirectly offers more proof that the Rice portrait is likely young teen Jane Austen. Some say the picture couldn’t be a 1780s portrait of Jane Austen because of her style of dress (which was not worn by grown women till some years later).
It is likely that young 12 or 13 year old Jane Austen appears in the portrait wearing a comfortable empire style gown (which little girls of that era wore…). She is not yet “out” in society (I’m assuming) and as an active girl who likes the outdoors, living not in a fancy city but in the country, probably she was still dressed in the comfortable child’s wear of the late 1700s.
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Juli 26, 2020