Tag: Jumping Joan

  • Jumping Joan

    (Here’s a cute little girl’s costume from a Mother Goose nursery rhyme.)

    Suitable for a Child. Tall and pointed cap, pink and white stripes carried round; soft pink silk dress with honeycomb yoke, a skipping-rope round waist; sleeves with puff at shoulder, slashed puffs at elbow, cuffs falling over the hand.

    Source: Holt, Ardern.  Fancy Dresses Described, 5th Edition.  London: Debenham & Freebody, 1887.

    The rhyme:

    Here am I, little jumping Joan,
    When nobody’s with me
    I’m always alone.