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Fashions evolve and change during centuries and the XIX-th still close
to us was very rich in these changes. But if modes for adults changed,
there was no childish fashion, the children were always the same. And
the getups of which one decked out them constituted a challenge in the
common sense. A crinoline to a small six year old girl? Why no frock
coat in a goldfish ?... And note that one did not even spare to the children these bizarre accessories which seemed nevertheless conceived only to favor their mothers who, really, played the doll with them: and so the small girls wore a bustle in 1860 ! Bustle at the age of seven years.........! ! ! It is true that if one worries about common sense in these subjects, you will ask me also why the small luxury dogs have a silk handkerchief in the dress handkerchief of their paletot ! Contrary to what one says, they are not the children who have the genius of the imitation. They are the adults who have the genius to imitate to the children all that they make for themselves. ( This text of the thirties is always of current events as you can notice it every day ! ) |
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You
know that there are people who are used to saying that "
there are no more children " Of course..... But exactly,
since
when does this expression exist ? There are no more children ! ....... And nevertheless it seems
out-of-date today. On the contrary, there are children, a
world
and a fashion for the children.
Twentieth
century is, each knows it, the century of big discoveries: motorcar,
plane, talking pictures, radiotelephony, hook in remmailler silk
stocking, electronic....
But think : it is
in the twentieth century also that one discovered the
children.....
The children and their
charming intelligence, their adorable personality, their grace and
their spirit appropriate.....
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One noticed the pleasure which one felt to guard them with one - to guard them, to look at them to listen them, to love them-. And twentieth century became that where the children speak at table ! Then one multiplied to please them, to amuse them, to distract them ; |
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It
was created for them a whole literature, games, spectacles,
and
even of true newspapers, numerous and weekly which constitute the
testimony of the importance which took the children in our modern
century.
And the fashion of children, abruptly transformed, became, it also, a true " fashion " of children, that is a fashion to them, an independent fashion. ( Interesing parallel brtween the carving of " L'Illustration " and the drawings of Gautier-Languereau ) |
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As
the dressmaker which unstitches the collar of the jacket after a first
fitting, one tore away from the suits of our small daughters
and
our little boys all which complicated them, everything which made them
heavy, heavy and unsightly.... One cut, grumbled, and one was
able to shout finally :
" Run!... Jump, dance cheerfully and without constraint !... After centuries and centuries, you have finally your independence; you are free !.... " And with they gallantly berets pushed on the head, with their short sleeves, with their indented sporting shirts, with their skirts or their short trousers, our children indeed feels ready to dash in the conquest of the life. They merited their children's " uniform ".. (Even
funny parallel )
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But
here that which is still stranger : not only the clothes of our
children are not copied any more to those of the adults but could not
one say, at the moment, that they are the adults who seem to be
inspired by our children in their manners ?
The young ladies and the girls, on their shoulders let float in light buckles their hair ; And did not we see, some years ago, moms and grandmothers who wore short, short, short dresses ?..... This just return of the things of here below must be welcomed as a happy forerunner. » Jean Nohain alias
Jaboune (1934 )
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And naturally, the small doll
Bleuette followed all these transformations with a rare
happiness ! I had the privilege to find in a special issue of " L'Illustration " of 1934, the drawings which illustrate this article written at the time by Jean Nohain and I was struck by the resemblance between its illustrations and the catalogs of the same time of Gautier-Languereau. It is there disturbing and proves oh ! How much that Madam Languereau dressed really this kind doll in the point of the fashion. What, exactly, makes her perennially fashionable. We would meet small girls dressed so actually, we would find them charming and completely up to date. A proof if it was need of it who Fashion, the true, the fashion design, has no age. So, let us be delighted to have a small doll which we can again spoil by dressing her in clothes of this time with elegance and happiness without any hiatus ! |
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Catalogue Bleuette 1923
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