Little Women 2019 vs 1994 vs book: Jo
Jo: Jo is the hardest of all little women characters to correctly analyse what is right or wrong in her dress code, because she is such an individual. You can't really pin it down and say, "oh she would not have worn that in the 1860's" or "her hair is so inaccurate" because she doesn't want to fit in with society. There is an interesting part in the book where Laurie gives Jo a leghorn hat which was waaaaay out of fashion because she said she wished wider hats were in fashion to shield her face from the sun so he sends her this hat and she wears it to the picnic he arranges with the Vaugn family. The last appearance of the leghorn hat after its popularity in the 1850s was a single appearance in godey's ladies book in 1861 so by roughly 1863-64 it was completely out of fashion. However, as the book specifically states that it was a wide brimmed old fashioned variant, he could have sent her a Georgian leghorn hat wich had a slightly less round crown