That's the corsetry.

I'm assuming that they have costumers for this piece too, although I'm not sure if they care.

That first one is a bit of...artistic license.

Unless they pulled an anti-Herbie on her in the movie, it's nothing they can't do for another one.

She doesn't really have to be large chested to look it in the movies.

ita, I think you have more faith in what a corset can do for a B-cup than I do. I was watching Sense and Sensibility the other day, and it was really obvious who had the luscious mams and who was whipping out the duct tape to pretend same.

(There was also Emma Thompson, not particularly busty at all and not trying to look it either, but the whole point of Eleanor is that you're supposed to look at the little worry lines around her mouth.)

Why can't I dislike him like I want to?

Um, he's a smoker and a skin-cancer case waiting to happen. He is short. He has been in need of an extra cheeseburger since about 2001.

Trying to help you out with reasons, here.

That first one is a bit of...artistic license.

They changed her skin tone and even flattened her belly (!). WTF?

Unless they pulled an anti-Herbie on her in the movie, it's nothing they can't do for another one.

No, it looks like someone drew a black line down her ribcage to create that picture.

I think you have more faith in what a corset can do for a B-cup than I do.

Cutlets, corsets, whatever. I don't really agree with you about the empire dresses looking like crap without above average sized breasts, but it's nowhere near impossible to fake it, if they feel the need.

it looks like someone drew a black line down her ribcage to create that picture.

Which is relevant in what way to being able to fake it for the P&P movie, should they care to?

After Project Greenlight I'm okay with liking Matt.

Some cool movie things off cable recently...

1. September is Michael Powell month on TCM. Set your Tivos folks - 9 movies will be shown. Will they show Black Narcisssus, I Know Where I'm Going, Peeping Tom, Colonel Blimp? I guess I should check the actual schedule.

2. Really enjoyed the Midnight Movies documentary I snagged recently off either IFC or Sundance. Long 20 minute overviews of the key films in the development of Midnight Movie culture: El Topo, Night of the Living Dead, Pink Flamingos, Rocky Horror and Eraserhead.

3. Also really enjoyed the Joan Crawford documentary off TCM they showed recently (though I think they did it in 2002). She had such a fascinating career that spanned from the silents all the way to working with Spielberg on Night Gallery. There's really no other actor who had major works in ever decade of the Hollywood Studio Era from the 20 all the way through to the Sixties. And she's so cute in those flapper movies.

4. Also the new Logo cable channel has been showing a lot of cool movies and TV shows, so seek it out.

but it's nowhere near impossible to fake it, if they feel the need.

I think the Regency era prized plump arms and rounded shoulders, as well. I think the ideal was willowy, without being too thin or gaunt--which was the effect the long-line dresses and corsets were trying to achieve.

I could be wrong though. Mayhap Susan would be able to confirm.

I hadn't even realised that this was part of the period look. I imagine more formless, and waisted much higher. Also, being a little closer to her, you know, actual body.

I did find that Gwyneth Paltrow looked positively ill in Empire dresses -- she was all collarbone and a hanged neck -- whereas several rounder folks looked quite fine in same. Well, we can disagree on that.

But you don't find it obvious when small breasts are pretended to be larger? I mean, people do pretend it, all the time, and sometimes I can take it in the fun it's intended. But most of the time, it just looks like somebody trying too hard (often painfully).

I am to understand that a large proportion of the general public cannot tell an implanted breast when they see one, but I sure can.