Beth March 1994 vs 2019 costume analysis
Beth March, sweet, unassuming, gentle Beth... This dear girl is the last of the March sisters in my Little Women comparison/analysis series. Naturally we have low expectations of fashion with Beth being a shy girl, rather wishing to stay at home a lot of the time. L.M Alcott did however describe Beth wearing a scarlet wrapper in the later half of Little Women, also in a separate book called Good Wives. Now that is interesting, because I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Victorians thought red was a warming, healthy colour that could improve the health of the wearer. Now with Beth's ill health, the choice of a red wrapper has an especial meaning which you can take or leave. In this scene it is portrayed as summertime so Beth's cotton print dress makes perfect sense you cannot see much in this picture, but notice the sleeve seam drops off the edge of the shoulder in the 1860s it was fashionable to have low shoulder seams to give a rounded look and also to help make the i