Genevieve Valentine ([info]glvalentine) wrote,
@ 2008-04-28 15:20:00
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Entry tags:costume, i am a spazz, movies

Clarissa.
So, guess who will be talking about Clarissa this week?

GOOD GUESS.

I managed to devour the whole thing in a single night, cursing a blue streak all the way through. I'm not sure how much of it I can watch again, though, because it's basically four hours of watching a bird get crushed under a boot-heel in slow motion and you spend most of it yelling, "STOP!" or "RUN!" or "NO CHEMISES!" and get all stressed out.

Anyway, expect a lot more about this in the coming days, because if I had to suffer, then dammit, so do you.

(Totally accurate gowns, totally accurate stays - NO CHEMISES. They show womein in underwear like, six times. NEVER A CHEMISE. Are they trying to kill me? They're trying to kill me.)



Underneath these gowns, all these women are chemiseless.


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[info]rikibeth
2008-04-28 07:31 pm UTC (link)
OMG. Look at the gowns. Look at the engageantes. Look at his lovely shirt.

WHY NO CHEMISES? WHY DO THEY TORTURE US?

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[info]glvalentine
2008-04-28 08:12 pm UTC (link)
And many times a woman opens her gown to reveal totally accurate stays WITH NO CHEMISE UNDER. Throw me a bone here, costumers, come on!

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[info]rikibeth
2008-04-28 08:15 pm UTC (link)
DID THEY WANT THEIR UNBATHED SWEATY BODIES TO BE SOILING THEIR EXPENSIVE STAYS?

REALLY, people!

Give the lingere some employment! (Accent codes do not seem to work on this keyboard, woe.)

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[info]tscheese
2008-04-28 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Wasn't a chemise like KIND OF A BIG DEAL back in the day? Like a huge huge deal? Because it protected those stifling gowns from your own grossness? And they were made of fabrics, that, at the time, were also Kind of a Big Deal?

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[info]glvalentine
2008-04-28 08:14 pm UTC (link)
I have ranted about chemises before, and so will spare you now, except to say, yes, they were the BIGGEST deal. The biggest.

Oh, the essay is coming.

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[info]ecmyers
2008-04-28 09:11 pm UTC (link)
Heh, I thought you were talking about the other Clarissa.

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[info]glvalentine
2008-04-28 09:13 pm UTC (link)
Her costumes were historically acurate - she escapes this little lecture! ;)

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[info]andrewkaye
2008-04-28 09:22 pm UTC (link)
Did you watch this LAST night? I thought you were supposed to be writing!

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[info]glvalentine
2008-04-28 09:23 pm UTC (link)
I still wrote 2,200 words! DURING the miniseries. I'm a crazy person.

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