disneyprincess11 wrote:
I'm glad we didn't get that dress. Funny how it sounds, but it looks too much like that time period. The style of the dress should stand out more since she is a "funny girl."
I think Belle would wear something different and not too restricting...but I feel she would still wear something closer to a 1700's dress like in that concept art. She could just wear it without a corset, without a cage, shorter sleeves...
JeanGreyForever wrote:
disneyprincess11 wrote:
I'm glad we didn't get that dress. Funny how it sounds, but it looks too much like that time period. The style of the dress should stand out more since she is a "funny girl."
That reminds me of how even Cinderella's animated ballgown is more early-mid Victorian compared to what her stepfamily wears. Lady Tremaine's outfit is more Edwardian while Anastasia and Drizella's bustle dresses come from the 1880s.
Disney Duster wrote:
Ok here's the 1800's dress. I think it looks like Belle's.
I can certainly see the similarities. It also reminds me a lot of the dress that the mice make for Cinderella, although some people also compare that dress to a rococo dress for some reason.
I made a picture just in reply to what you said, lol. I've learned a lot about costumes and Cinderella, of course, and I actually feel Cinderella's silver dress look, with her hair atop her head, choker, cap sleeves, and yes, a bustle (I'm pretty sure that's what the puffy material at her waist is) would be more late Victorian (1880's?), like in the first picture in the image I provide (also with a woman looking a little like Lady Tremaine), and then I also included a Victorian dress that shows her pink mice dress is indeed still from the 1800's, the picture on the right:

Funnily enough I did try to provide a rococo picture on here for her pink dress when I was trying to say Cinderella was set in the rococo time period (
Click here for that thread), but of course now I know it's not. However, as you and I agreed, the architecture is rococo, and Cinderella's hair, choker, and bustle actually do recall the rococo, they just happen to also connect with the Victorian.