Historically Accurate Disney Princesses:
Snow White:
-Mid to late 1500s Germany
-Religious reformations affected women’s garments, which were heavy, dark, and austere
Jasmine:
- 300s Arabian Peninsula
- Pre-Islamic Arabia was a modest society, so women wore loose, shapeless clothing
Tiana:
- 1920s New Orleans, USA
- Although New Orleans was an epicenter of black culture, Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation
Aurora:
- 1300s England
-Aurora was raised as a peasant before discovering she was a princess; although noblewomen were better educated, they led far more restricted lives than peasant women
Pocahontas:
- Early 1600s Virginia, USA
- Powhatan women decorated their skin with tattoos and rarely covered their breasts
Belle:
- 1700s France
- Belle married into royalty, who dressed extravagantly to display their status; the aristocracy was overthrown during the French Revolution
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