My husband realised he had been going to costume films with me too long when his first thought at a lady taking off her bodice in a film was "Hey, she's not wearing a chemise."
Katy On 4/25/06, Sharon at Collierfam.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I drive my family nuts saying stuff like" Why doesn't he/she do ......?" My > husband says,"Then the movie'd be 15 minutes long." We just have to suspend > our disbelief and enjoy the show. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Lavolta Press > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 9:54 PM > To: Historical Costume > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Titanic film > > > I thought that too. > > Speaking of dumb decisions, I just saw "Last of the Mohicans." I could > believe it when the Indian said he was the "last" at the end, because > almost everybody else in the film had gotten colorfully killed. That's > what the whole film was about. > > But anyway: > > Here are two teenage girls fresh out from England, with the frontiersman > Hawkeye and his adoptive Mohican father and brother, escorting the girls > to their father's fort. They get near the fort, sneaking up through the > woods at night, and discover from distance that it's under siege. The > area around it looks and sounds like the Fourth of July. (I know they > didn't have the Fourth of July then, well they did but it wasn't the > Fourth of July; well you know what I mean.) > > At this point I would have turned around to my guides and said, "You > know this area, is there anyplace we can hole up safely till this battle > is all over?" No--they go right in! > > I haven't read the book, which hopefully explains things like this. But > in the film, I thought they were idiots. > > Fran > Lavolta Press > http://www.lavoltapress.com > > > > > > I thought. "Hey....couldn't your daughter use that?!" > > > > Well Rose couldn't make a decent decision in 1912, why would she now? > > _______________________________________________ > > h-costume mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
