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Jun. 26th, 2013 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI really want to read something between Count of Monte Cristo and Revenge - Revenge set in the nineteenth century. It would be brilliant.
(I've just got to the Charlotte revelation. CHARLOTTE OMG!)
One of the things Revenge really makes me reflect on - because the costuming is nearly all high style, aspirational type stuff - is how much modern taste runs to plainness. It's not new to me, it sticks out badly in nearly all the historical fiction I read that the heroine amazes everyone with her pared-down sense of style while all the other women in trimmed and ruffled gowns look frights, but I don't watch much tv set at an equivalent level of society and therefore with an equivalent level of dress. Nearly all the time, nearly every woman wears a well-fitted sheath dress in a solid color: one with a filmy overlayer, another with a single flounce, a third with a delicate applied trim in a contrasting color, but all very basic and stereotypically chic. When something is more fussy, it's still done in one fabric. Is this what the actual Hamptons crowd wears? I have no clue. But I think this is how the middle classes imagine the rich dress, which makes it seem even more related to why people write this way.
Well, it's that and early imprinting on Anne Shirley.
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Going off this plate, I think I'm going to get light blue lawn for the dress and slightly darker blue for the bodice lining and the foundation of the underskirt. Sounds like a plan? (Also, to save links so I can close them, thread and two kinds of ribbons for trimming.)
(I've just got to the Charlotte revelation. CHARLOTTE OMG!)
One of the things Revenge really makes me reflect on - because the costuming is nearly all high style, aspirational type stuff - is how much modern taste runs to plainness. It's not new to me, it sticks out badly in nearly all the historical fiction I read that the heroine amazes everyone with her pared-down sense of style while all the other women in trimmed and ruffled gowns look frights, but I don't watch much tv set at an equivalent level of society and therefore with an equivalent level of dress. Nearly all the time, nearly every woman wears a well-fitted sheath dress in a solid color: one with a filmy overlayer, another with a single flounce, a third with a delicate applied trim in a contrasting color, but all very basic and stereotypically chic. When something is more fussy, it's still done in one fabric. Is this what the actual Hamptons crowd wears? I have no clue. But I think this is how the middle classes imagine the rich dress, which makes it seem even more related to why people write this way.
Well, it's that and early imprinting on Anne Shirley.
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Going off this plate, I think I'm going to get light blue lawn for the dress and slightly darker blue for the bodice lining and the foundation of the underskirt. Sounds like a plan? (Also, to save links so I can close them, thread and two kinds of ribbons for trimming.)
