This is wanky AND THEN I WILL STOP

I just want to say, so I can get it out of my system and close out the tab, that this page has a picture that Austen seems to have identified as looking like Mrs. Bingley, and that picture shows a very cherubic, round face with a small nose and rosebud lips. I think Susannah Harker did a brilliant job as Jane, but no, in period she would not have been considered more beautiful than Jennifer Ehle.

Yes, this is about an anon fight I got into months ago.

Sewing angst

I had one of those moments where I felt like everything I've done on this jacket has been wrong, why am I bothering, it's not going to fit and the print is ugly and not really period and I'm going to look like an idiot. Then I attached the cuff I finished to the sleeve I'd set in and tried it on, which made the sleeve not look ridiculously short, and I started feeling so much better.

Okay, the linen is too heavy (maybe it's meant for a modern jacket or upholstery) and the print, which looked kind of like a painted pattern on the internet, is not really right for ... any period, really. And I think I'm going to have to take tucks in the cap of the sleeve to make it less puffy. But it fits and it is much more period than an "English bodice" (sleeveless, loose) so I think I will be all right. To be honest, I think my problem is that all I ever see is really good stuff from the bloggers I follow - since I haven't really gone to any events before, I have no idea what the Woman in the Camp is wearing and assume they're all perfectly-outfitted and have expertly draped each other's gowns, etc. etc. This may not be so. At any rate, I'm going to have nice Fugawee shoes and I have awesome spiral hairpins to hold my bun in place (THEY ARE MAGNIFICENT), and I am going to have fun with my mom in her shortgown, which she has of course sewn perfectly.

Also, I just want to link to meddow's great meta on Catelyn Stark. I only read the first bit to keep from spoiling myself, but that bit at least was very good! I'm not a huge fan of Catelyn as a person, but I do like her as a character and I love that Martin uses her to explore the sorts of things a mostly-conventional woman of her class could get done. I have some thoughts on CoK and some things I picked up on in my rewatch of GoT that made me go "oh, right!" but I will save all that for tomorrow.