They didn't HAVE Collide in the 1800s!

The accursed song seems to transcend known time-space continuum. Or maybe Howie Day is an immortal.

It *is* sort of like vidding LOTR to an Evanescence song, isn't it?

I read in a fashion magazine (Vogue? Elle? I cannot remember) that the director decided to set P&P in the late 18th century in order to have different costuming/hair than would be usual during the Regency. More dramatic, perhaps?

I don't know. The rationale is that it was set when Austen wrote it rather than when it was published. (I may be remembering this wrong.)

I read in a fashion magazine (Vogue? Elle? I cannot remember) that the director decided to set P&P in the late 18th century in order to have different costuming/hair than would be usual during the Regency.

I remember reading that too. I think the reasoning was that the director just didn't like Regency fashions.

But, what I saw in the movie trailer did look like Regency, inasmuch as it didn't look like Victorian. Right? For one thing, the Victorians would not have low-cut dresses, but high-cut, or covering the neck even, and a tight bodice from armpits to hips.

So, it might not be Regency, but I suspect it's not any other historical period, either.

Umm, late 18th century is not Victorian -- well, what the heck is that period called?

Later than powdered wigs? Prior to Empire waist dresses?

It *is* sort of like vidding LOTR to an Evanescence song, isn't it?

Bring Me To Life is SO about Elizabeth and Darcy. It's THEM!

Edwardian? (Edit: Nope, wrong direction.)

You know, my grasp of that period of history is pretty much solely from Austen, O'Brian, and the Sharpe movies.

Wikipedia says:

The term (Regency) is sometimes used in various ways to include years surrounding the decade of the formal regency. If "Regency" is considered to be transitional between "Georgian" and "Victorian" then it would refer to the entire period from approximately 1811 until the accession of Queen Victoria, encompassing the actual period of Regency, along with George IV's reign in his own right and that of his brother William IV. If "Regency" is contrasted with "Eighteenth century", then it could include the whole period of the Napoleonic wars.

There really wasn't much between regency and powder wigs. I thought the directiore/empire/regency was in fact a reaction to the scary clothes before the French Revolution.

So these silhouettes help?

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Umm, late 18th century is not Victorian

You are right. I can't count. I thought you were saying late 1800s.

I haven't seen any footage below the waist, so I don't nkow if Keira Knightley is wearnig a Big Butt dress. But if she is, then Wossname from Spooks ought to be wearing his hair in a ponytail, which he particularly isn't.

(Actually, he looks like crap, hairwise, but in artful fashion.)