Sargent Paints Disney Princesses

Saw a really wonderful exhibition on John Singer Sargent today. One sketch was of a very tall woman, in urban dress energeitcally holding a cigarette. The dress she was wearing made the subject look exotic to me, but when I think about depictions of other women from that time period I've see depictions of others in similar exotic, mod clothing. (Sigh - It looks like you could only wear those dresses if you were tall!) Her eyes were squinty as if she were peering into the future. Maybe she saw Smoky Hill High School prom 1990: she was wearing a prom dress. The woman had a stiff huffy posture and maybe had a stiff huffy voice which she could possibly use to yell at anyone who mae a comment that she didn't like or took the wrong pastry from the dessert tray. Next to her was another painting. This painting was full of movement: for example the grass at the feet of the model waving, mixing with the ocean waving, and a fishing net that the model held out floated over the water. Unlike the woman in the prom dress, you couldn't see her face. Maybe she had a sunburn or glasses, or freckles, but it looked like when the artist painted her he snuck up on her from behind and BAM: woman caught in paint! Both of the woman were very Disney Princessish in the way that they looked soooooooooooooooo devilish and sooooooooooooooo sugary. When they were all sitting around in their sewing circles did they choose what dress they would sew? Did the smoking and energetic posture of one woman and the naturalization of the other tell you about anything important, or just give a glimpse?