. Outfit of the pre-teen daughter of a French 'bourgeois' from Galerie des Modes, 1778 (Plate 45, detail): a green dress with large panniers, and a white striped pseudo-apron thing over it. By modern standards, it seems quite impractical for a child of that age -- and the clothes of an actual aristocrat young girl of the same age might possibly have been even more extreme. (Compare the adult aristocratic dress at ) This was about a decade before the idea of sparing children most of the indignities of adult fashions took hold (compare the atti
. Outfit of the pre-teen daughter of a French 'bourgeois' from Galerie des Modes, 1778 (Plate 45, detail): a green dress with large panniers, and a white striped pseudo-apron thing over it. By modern standards, it seems quite impractical for a child of that age -- and the clothes of an actual aristocrat young girl of the same age might possibly have been even more extreme. (Compare the adult aristocratic dress at ) This was about a decade before the idea of sparing children most of the indignities of adult fashions took hold (compare the attire of Image:Marie in 1785-1786, Image:Battledore - Youthful in 1804, in ca. 1803, Image:Philipp Otto Runge in 1805-1806, Image:Jean-Baptiste Wicar in 1809, or ca. ). Also, compare en:Image:Watteau the / Image:Antoine Watteau or Image:Dansande barn, målning av Lorens Pasch or Image:William Hogarth to see how little things changed from 1718 to 1742 to . 1778. 18th century artists, possibly the same who did 1778-Bourgeois-daughter-fashion
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