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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.)
Georgian?
Is is Georgian --> Regency --> Victorian --> Edwardian?
I, too, only remember these in terms of books/movies instead of in any kind of political or historical context. Georgian is... uhm, not Richardson--I think he comes before. The period where "Restoration" is set in. Regency = Austen and Napoleonic War, Victorian = Brontes, Edwardian = E.M. Foster, etc.
Is is Georgian --> Regency --> Victorian --> Edwardian?
If my memories of Blackadder serve me correctly, then yes.
It *is* sort of like vidding LOTR to an Evanescence song, isn't it?
People will vid anything to Evanescence, I discovered a Willow/Legolas vid to My Immortal.
Sherlock Holmes is late Victorian as well.
I've never finished any of Austen's books. I can't get into them and I keep thinking I should watch one of the films and see if that helps.
in costume history, I learned it as
Roccoco - - > Directiore/Empire -->Regency---> Civil War ---> Bustle --- Late Bustle---> Edwardian
I think. I have a feeling I am missing one between regency and civil war
So, what comes between Elizabethan and Georgian? And where does Samuel Richardson and "Clarissa" fall in? Are the Romantic Poets (Shelley, Keats et al.) from the Georgian era?
I could probably be looking this up myself, but I'm feeling lazy.
Going back to the new P&P, the wardrobes and the scenery from the trailer seemed distinctly Brontëfied, to quote Mr. Lane, all wild billowing skirts on some windswept heath-covered hill. I *think* there were some Empire waist dresses, but the square-neck heaving bosom-ness was less apparent.
The Baroque period is before Roccoco.
Here's the official film website (warning: it has music; un-warning: it's some pretty little possibly period pianoforte piece, not Collide). Most of the photos are close-ups of faces with an occasional glimpse of shoulder, but there is a scrap of costume info available if you select "Jane Bennet" from the Characters menu near the bottom of the screen. From Jane's page there's a link to a bunch of costume sketches. Which look pretty darn classically Regency (except Lady Catherine, whose costume looks older, but that's handwavey as "old cranky lady, still dressing as in her days of youth and glory").