I think it was just a slip of the finger...earlier in your post you said "chemise," but then you said: "No-one professing to be a lady, or even of the class of >>Clarissa, would have gone without a corset." I think you probably meant to write "would have gone w/o a chemise" -- hence the confusion. KP
Suzi Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 16:51 11/08/2005, you wrote: >Clarissa definitely wears a corset. You get to see a fair amount of it. I said that Clarissa does not wear a chemise under her corset - I did not say that she did not wear a corset. As costumer, trying to persuade customers to wear the proper underclothes, this sort of thing undermines what I say and irritates me to heck! Suzi, making an 18th century chemise to be worn with an 18th century corset and wedding dress. > >I thought the costumes were, in general, good; and the settings >(country houses and so on) were lavish and elegant. As for 100% >accuracy, there is no such thing in any repro; but I didn't see >anything that damaged the film experience for me. I don't believe >that the be-all and end-all of every film is the costumes. > >"Clarissa" is very, very well done. There's lots of great visual >work. Like, in the very beginning Clarissa comes downstairs to hear >her grandfather's will read. She's a few minutes late, so when she >enters you see her whole family ranged in a row, as it were against >her, all dressed in black and staring at her reprovingly. It sets >the tone of their relationship for the whole film. >And, Lovelace has a friend called Jack whose role is largely to hear >Lovelace expound his "rake's philosophy." If Lovelace had made his >points while they were sitting in a drawing-room, or for that matter >all at one time, it would have gotten tedious. But instead you hear >snatches of it, always when they're doing something masculine and >violent--shooting birds out of the sky or having an aggressive >fencing practice. > >The dialog is excellent, with great nuances. For example, Clarissa >early on drops her glove in a garden and Lovelace hands it back to >her, saying "Yours, I believe?" Later, her brother slaps Lovelace >in the face with his glove, then throws it at him, and Lovelace >hands it back the same way and responds in the same tone, "Yours, I believe?" > >It's a fantastic film. I don't understand why BBC waited over ten >years to put it on DVD. > >Fran >Lavolta Press Books on Historic Costuming >http://www.lavoltapress.com > >> >> >>I saw this when first out and was disappointed in the costumes. No >>chemises!!! Corsets on bare skin. Even Hogarth's prostitutes wore >>chemises. No-one professing to be a lady, or even of the class of >>Clarissa, would have gone without a corset. I don't remember Sean >>Bean at all, and I am a huge fan. So you can tell what sort of an >>impression it made on me. >> >>Suzi _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
