Children’s clothing

Price: Euro 3,00
(about USD 4,50)

F. Meo, Children’s clothing, Fondazione Giacomini-Meo-Fiorot, 1995

The booklet presents the children’s clothing section through the most significant items of the Mazzucchelli Museums’ collection, dating back to the middle of the eighteen hundreds. Precious outfits for christenings or important occasions, dresses, coats, hats, bibs, bags and other accessories are documented with detailed technical descriptions and a wealth of photographs.
Thirteenth booklet of Franca Meo’s work “The Women’s Museum” (Fondazione Giacomini-Meo, 1995).
Text in Italian and English. Translated by A. Butcher.

“For as long as children were considered small adults, their clothing was just an imitation of adult’s fashion. In old pictures and prints, which portray family groups, the children in fact appear dressed in the same representative and ostentatious way as their mothers, with great use of flounces, lace and ribbons. Only when independence and importance were given to children’s needs rather than to their mothers’ desire to create a good impression, did a specialised sector emerge in children’s clothing, attentive to creating attractive clothes which were especially suited to the practical requirements of little ones”. Franca Meo

33 x 24 cm., 16 pp. colour illustrations