ABSTRACT
The painter, illustrator, and stained-glass designer Henry Holiday established the journal Aglaia in 1893 to support the work of the Healthy & Artistic Dress Union of which he was president. In 1884, Liberty opened a dress department under the guidance of the designer E. W. Godwin. The demand originating in appreciation of the merits of the previously unknown Japanese fabrics extended to other Eastern materials which were comparatively well known, and particularly to those of Chinese and Hindoo origin. Classic Japanese forms, designs, and colourings were, however, those most soughtThe dawn of improved taste tended towards a revival of Western medieval art, but the efforts of renaissance were cramped by the difficulty, amounting well-nigh to the impossibility, of procuring from among the surrounding chaotic and debased forms, designs and fabrics, suitable material for reconstruction or development. The introduction of the tailor-made dress is a great improvement on the painful austerities insisted on at an earlier date.
