Yep, vidding has changed the entire way I watch everything.

[sapote]

I had a hankering to rewatch the 2005 Pride and Prejudice, and I am noticing, for instance, at 17:23? Mr. Darcy is having breakfast with Miss Bingley, and the camera is behind them as a squire-dude in a wig comes in and announces that they have a guest. Now, Miss Bingley is reading society gossip out loud, and Mr. Darcy is hunched over his newspaper ignoring her. The squire-person walks in, announces there is a guest, Mr. Darcy looks up and then looks back down at his newspaper, and then when he hears the name "Elizabeth Bennet" he looks up and his back unconsciously, gradually goes straight. At this point we can't see his face, just Caroline Bingley's profile as she looks at him, taken aback by his reaction. It is a lovely little bit of body language that I have just rewound and watched six times in a row, and I would never have noticed it before.

(Also just after that, when Elizabeth walks in, he looks terrified. That never fails to make me giggle.)
(Also, right when she walks out it is so obvious that he is kicking himself for not managing to say something cooler. Oh, Mr. Darcy, patron saint of socially-awkward introverts everywhere).


Basically I love everything in this movie that involves Caroline Bingley. I don't know if it's a cultural thing or just reflects badly on me as a person, but I am charmed by people insulting each other very politely.

Also, since I started sewing, I keep pausing movies to look at how the costumes are put together. I love the dresses in this movie (so flattering! So comfortable-looking!) and it was only yesterday that I figured out about the y-seam in the back of the bodice. Why is it there? What does it do? Is there really no side seam?

I realize that discussing this without screencaps is unfair to everyone who hasn't seen the movie as much as I have, but it's sunday morning and I'm having a livejournal ramble, so there.

Happy Sunday?

Comments

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

wow. I have now been reading these for ::checks clock:: three hours. Thanks!

[chibimuse.livejournal.com]

Haha, no problem!
When I first found them it was a total godsend, I was trying to replicate a dress and couldn't for the life of me figure out how it was made. Then, tada! They told me!

I thought that would be more useful than me trying to explain the seams on my own with my tiny knowledge of 1900's fashion.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

If you still want to try to explain them, feel free, because hi, I have only the most basic understanding of how clothing is put together period. (And yet I suspect fairly soon I am going to start abandoning pattern-based sewing and wasting a lot of muslin, because I'm like that.)

On the other hand, these websites go a fair way towards sparing you the frustration of explaining it in little words I would understand *g*

[chibimuse.livejournal.com]

I am the kind of person who would buy a dvd just to look at the costumes because I couldn't find decent screencaps ;) I'm especially guilty of that in movies like Marie Antoinette with these epic gowns.

Well I'll try and explain:

The seams in the back that create the "Y" shape are really a matter of style more so than construction.
Their purpose is to help the dress curve and follow the naturally curved shape of the human back, while still lying nice and smooth. This could just as easily be achieved with darts, but the style of the period was these curved back seams.
It's kind of a visual choice, it looks nice!

There is usually still a side seam, because these Y seams are added on shaping.

[chibimuse.livejournal.com]

I'm at the 'wasting muslin' stage right now!

Personaly, using muslin for mock-ups is a load of crock, that stuff isn't that cheap. Go to the thrift store and buy some white bed sheets!

I've used up two already on Phnelt's top I'm designing, and I wouldn't have liked it if I had paid more than 2$ each!