Jo's hair is short because she sold it to provide money for Marmee's trip, not because she was attempting to appear unconventional.

@DrKateStrasdin

Жыл бұрын

I must have had an absolute brain freeze there! I knew that, I love the story so clearly had a ‘moment’ 🤦🏼‍♀️

@abelchavez2463

10 ай бұрын

I think it's spoken out of context of the film and in specific reference to the aesthetic decisions that the filmmakers made.

@gwenhughes8650

3 ай бұрын

I think it conveys both. Jo is willing to cut her hair to pay for Marmee's trip. Other girls may not have been so willing *because* it was unconventional.

@rosilindschroeder1880

10 күн бұрын

Thank you. Quite correct!

Re: corsets, I wish people knew there were different kinds of corsets throughout history, and tight-lacing was only a Thing for a very narrow period of time. Generally, women were meant to be able to bend and move and work while wearing them.

lol when she was talking about women wearing corsetts and hit me with the wearing skinny jeans thing I instantly realized I would skateboard in the tightest damn jeans imaginable.

I like the lateat Emma rendition. Best historical costumes ive seen in a long time

She didn't mention that men would have had to take their hats off in church but women would have to keep theirs on (for the church scene in Gentleman Jack)

I've read that corsets were actually beneficial to maintaining good posture. I think they've become this symbol of oppression because of our perceptions of the 19th century and all things 'Victorian' and, because they are a uniquely feminine piece of apparel. Much as in the 1960's, the bra became a similar symbol of feminine oppression.

They would not wear corsets under those (Bridgerton) dresses. They would be short stays and even if they were wearing long ones they wouldn't be cinched in like that. If you look at the empire line dresses like Daphne's you can't see her waiste so why pull it in?

@hedgewytch88

Ай бұрын

I don't think they wore them against the skin either

The court dress in Bridgerton looks French, not English. The English ones still had panniers, which made for a rather ridiculous silhouette with the fashionable short bodices.

Fascinating

King video.

For all the corset hysteria, I think the equivalent thing women just....wear and accept...is heeled shoes. I didn't realize how pervasive it was until I shattered my arch and can't wear them any more....and wow.

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I'm not sure why Strasdin chooses to ignore how the details of Little Women completely ignore the historical context of the situations involved. While she takes Gentleman Jack to task as to exactly how masculine she could really get away with dressing, she reserves none of those caveats for Jo March, who, as a woman from a lower middle class family, will receive even less indulgence from society, and also as a woman who has to make an effort to provide some income, and who wants to be a writer and will be rejected by the publishing world if she goes about trying to sell her work dressed in a manner that would be considered simulataneously slutty and borderline cross dressing. Nearly impossible. As well as the nonsensical notion that every member of the March family has their own color palette, when, as she very well knows, most people would buy a single bolt of cloth and make one dress for each girl. Then the characters are never wearing bonnets or hats, and she well established in her previous comments that in this era one never left home without hats.

Bridgerton is awful.