Alice Vansittart Comyns Carr (née Strettell; 1 January 1850 – 11 October 1927), was a British costume designer whose work is associated with the Aesthetic dress movement.

[3][4] As a costume designer, Carr was associated with the Aesthetic dress movement and its championship of looser, more flowing garments with theatrical touches such as lace and embroidery.

[2] It was rumored that she was the inspiration behind the comic figure of "Mrs Cimabue Brown" that the cartoonist George du Maurier invented to mock the Aestheticists in some of his drawings for Punch magazine.

In it, she wrote, "I had long been accustomed to supporting a certain amount of ridicule in the matter of clothes, because in the days when bustles and skin-tight dresses were the fashion, and a twenty-inch waist the aim of every self-respecting woman, my frocks followed the simple, straight line as waistless as those of today.

"[9] Carr also wrote several books, including North Italian Folk: Sketches of Town and Country Life (1878),[13] Margaret Maliphant (1889),[14] and The Arm of the Lord (1899).