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My daughter brought home with her the six-episode mini-series 1996 version of Pride and Prejudice. She and I have watched it over the last several days, and I enjoyed it very much.
The language. The happy endings. The costumes. The landscapes. The interiors. The mise-en-scene. (One certainly hopes they were accurate with the costuming, houses, street scenes, interiors, etc! Pretty, regardless, but how much more interesting if accurate!!!)
The plot -- majorly contrived. :-)
It's necessary to mention an overwhelming "WOW!! am I glad I did not live then." Yikes. Women SO impossibly constrained. Oppressed. Limited. Scary!!!!!!!!! And then there's the whole servant thing...... Not to mention wearing dresses all the time (part of that constrained and limited thing!)...... UPDATE: it has been quite reasonably pointed out to me that it is a fine thing to CHOOSE to wear dresses all the time. My objection, very poorly stated above, was meant to be to gender-based requirements for (or restrictions against!) wearing dresses.
If you enjoy good dialog, and intelligent (if full-of-blind-spots!) characters, and can tolerate a lot of air-headed characters (along with a genuine villain or two), or if you can get by on eye-candy alone, this is fun and well worth the time.
I know I missed a lot the first time through; I want to watch it again and catch more nuances.
Only in the last episode did I notice the tailoring on the back of many of the coats. It was very different from anything I've seen before. Now I'm wondering what other such details I was oblivious to.............
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But But But ... I wear dresses. ONLY when the heat is like this. No shorts, no small skirts (not with my butt), no capris. Dresses are IT. Long, loose, free. I love 'em.
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Excellent, when it's your choice to do so!
I never wear anything but jeans outside the house. I have a loose tshirt dress I wear in the house (well, ok, in the back yard, too).
But not anywhere else. I don't like feeling that ... exposed.....
Nothing wrong with CHOOSING to wear dresses.
Everything wrong with someone else deciding a person has to (or can't, for that matter), because of gender..............
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Intent clarified in the post. :-)
One day a man I work with said, "I never see you wear a dress, Jennifer." To which I replied, "I never see you in one, either, Mike."
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Good on ya, Jennifer! :-) :-)
Excellent come-back. :-)
I work for the University, in a social-sciencey unit.
One time we had a young man working for us. Now that I think of it, I have no idea why he was there. He was a temp.... Maybe we were between secretaries or something.
Anyway.
One day, he dyed his long hair magenta.
The next day, he painted his fingernails to match.
The next day, he wore a floor-length skirt.
I had the feeling he was hoping to get a rise out of someone, but no one said a word.......
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The most recent time I saw a guy in a skirt was one of those khaki kilt things -- and it was a FREEZING day with a howling wind. I'll bet the wind-chill was zero.
We were all standing around, outside, waiting for the bus, so I had time to contemplate skirt-wearing in the dead of winter (and to remember it, from my school days when I didn't have a choice!).
Choosing to wear a skirt on a day like that? Poor decision-making, regardless of gender! :-)
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