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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