Artistic Dress at Liberty & Co.Words by Anna Buruma Libertys dress department opened in 1884, headed by Edward William Godwin, an architect with a multi faceted career and an important figure in the Aesthetic Movement. From the mid nineteenth century, women fought against restrictive clothing such as tight laced corsets and heavy petticoats which were harmful to their health and chose instead to dress in looser fitting dresses, coloured with natural dyes and ornamented with