Sometimes I wonder how historically accurate Disney is. Ok, that’s not true. I don’t give a shit how historically accurate Disney is, but if I did care then Claire Hummel would have totally have helped me out. She researched the eras of each cartoon and re-drew them with the correct style of dress from their time-period. Fascinating non the less!
According to the artist, some were harder than others. Of Snow White, Claire said it “is pretty easy to pinpoint in 16th-century Germany. Not that the film is accurate, but the clues are there.” Others were more challenging. Claire explained: “The Little Mermaid is hard to place from a time period standpoint — Grimsby’s wearing a Georgian getup, Ariel’s pink dress with the slashed sleeves subscribes to several eras from the Renaissance to the 1840s, Eric is . . . Eric. I went with Ariel’s wedding dress as a starting point since those gigantic leg-o-mutton sleeves (so embarrassingly popular in ’80s wedding fashion) were a great starting point for an 1890s evening gown.”