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[edit] Historical telescoping
These quotes, in the article as I found it, blithely skip over decades:
- Josephine Bonaparte was the traditional figurehead for the Empire waistline. When English women saw her dressed in elaborate, skilfully decorated Empire line dresses they rapidly raised the waistline of the long, cylindrical silhouette of the late Renaissance eras. The sixties saw a revival of the Empire silhouette was the sexual revolution encouraged women to rebel away from the constricting corsetry of the early 1900’s.
How would Englishwomen have "seen" Josephine before the Peace of Amiens, when women's clothing styles in England had already changed quite a bit? What do the constricting clothing styles of the 1770's have to do with the "Renaissance"? And the last sentence makes it seem as if the Gibson Girls directly segued into the era of the miniskirt with no transition... Churchh 04:16, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Emma, Lady Hamilton
I don't want to disparage her, but most testimonies are that the neo-Greek fashions spread from Paris. Churchh (talk) 00:42, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
