Fashioning Alice: The Career of Lewis Carroll’s Icon, 1860–1901

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150 years after Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published, Lewis Carroll’s eponymous heroine has become one of the most familiar figures in the cultural landscape. The enduringly iconic figure of the Victorian child, Alice has inspired countless fashion designers, illustrators and stylists. The ‘Alice Look’ has been embraced across the world, by young and old alike, and by both the feted and the forgotten. Fashioning Alice is the first book to chart the emergence of Alice as a style icon. Kiera Vaclavik traces the evolution of Alice’s visual identity in the nineteenth century and explores the myriad ways in which she was dressed – on the page, on the stage, and in the home. The book also draws on historical sources to examine amateur performance and play not just in the UK but in the USA, Japan and Australia. Illustrated throughout, Fashioning Alice is a ground-breaking exploration of Alice’s visual career that offers a compelling case study of the intersections between fashion and fiction. Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Carroll, Dress and the ‘Original’ Tenniel Alice Introduction Carroll’s artistic interests and aesthetic sense Dressing his characters Dress and appearance in the Alice books Visualizing Alice Conclusion Chapter 2: The Evolution of Alice Introduction Revisioning Alice: Through the Looking-Glass Glorious Technicolor and other authorized alterations Alice unbound Conclusion Chapter 3: Alice in Other Hands Introduction ‘Who in the world am I?’ Demarcating the corpus After Tenniels Alternative Alices Conclusion Chapter 4: Dressing as Alice Introduction Amateur Alice Professional Alice Alice off-stage Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index