Talk:Artistic Dress movement
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More coming: reactions to artistic dress, bohemianism, Liberty and aesthetic dress, Kate Greenaway and children's dress.
PKM 3 July 2005 04:58 (UTC)
- Hope that you don't mind that I joined in the fray. We need dates, and I was too lazy to look them up. Also pictures of fashionable versions of aesthetic dress. I know I've seen fashion plates showing a strange mixture of medievalizing and tiny waists. Weren't tea gowns a compromise -- tightly fitted in front and flowing in back? (Watteau back, I think.)
- Weren't there male versions of aesthetic dress too? Oscar Wilde was certainly known for his knee breeches. Zora 3 July 2005 08:46 (UTC)
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- Of course I don't mind; I was hoping for help with this. Yes, tea gowns (by way of Liberty I think) - that's the next thing I want to add.
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- And yes to Oscar Wilde (and the resurgence of smocks, especially for children, a bit later under the influence of Kate Greenaway's illustrations - which brings in retro-Regency, which is another influence on artistic dress, especially the sleeve styles...)
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- and we need to link to and contrast with Victorian dress reform PKM 3 July 2005 18:58 (UTC)
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- Oh and thanks for fixing the POV - I knew "wildly" and "excessive" weren't quite the thing. - pk
[edit] Edits of 9 July 2005
Added the references to Wilde and Liberty, and images. What do people think of the "more images" section? I don't want to load the page up, but it's important to see the clothes – is this a good compromise?
I'll find more images for late aesthetic dress and some tea gowns. PKM 19:44, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
- Zora - I like your edit. Much more concise. PKM 23:19, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
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- Someone working on Indian movies set up a photo gallery for Indian actresses and it actually looks kinda nice. Maybe we could figure out how to do this and have photo galleries for costume articles?
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- The problem is always, of course, getting images that are public domain. Since so many commercial sites just grab the Wikipedia text and images, we can't use anything that's fair use only. It has to be unlimited use. It's easy with stuff that's 2-D, since there's a US court ruling that a photo of a 2-D original that's old enough to be public domain can't be copyrighted. If the original is pre-1923, any images are fair game. But photos of old gowns, as opposed to photos of old fashion illustrations -- those can be copyrighted. Zora 23:25, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
The problem with copyright law is that it's often not clear if anyone has rights. The only way you find out that it's OK to use it is if no one sues you. It seems highly unlikely that Sears, say, would sue you for using an image from a 1930s catalogue, but you can't rule out any corporate idiocy. Major reasons to have the laws changed! So I can't answer your question. I don't think that "promotional" use turns something into PD, but the copyright status of an old catalog is murky. Zora 07:49, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
