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verbminxHee! Soo, I have returned home from seeing the film.
Hee hee hee.
I can't say it was the best movie I've ever seen, or even close, but it makes up for it in terms of tickling me pink.
The only complaints I had:
- the whole corset plot thread (which was dumb - women had stays that they were used to wearing, and i believe they didn't really tightlace much in this period, and HELLO, the gown that she was tightlaced for was ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE the gown she wore in the beginning as a child, except for having a split overskirt),
- and the general costuming madness. Exactly what year was this thing meant to be set in? There were about 75 years worth of clothes in that movie. That's roughly like having people in full "Titanic" gear in a movie about Carnaby Street c. 1968. Probably for most people it just "fit the mood", but for anyone who has even a little bit of fashion history under their belts, it's a little bit twitchmaking.
I threatened to go in costume, so I might as well tally that up now. I pinned my big stripey "KISS ME, I'M A PIRATE!" patch to a 3/4 sleeve hoodie that I wore as a shirt. Then I wore jeans, but folded them up a bit, so that I had cuffs and so that you could see my red-and-white striped knee socks and the mary jane style mules I was wearing. Then I wore my metallic red vinyl wristband with the skull-and-crossbone studs, and Chanel "Metal Garnet" lipstick to match. So there you go - a bit themey for everyday wear, but not so costumey that I felt like a complete loser. (the patch was only PINNED to my shirt, of course, because I wanted to be able to take it off & roll down my pantlegs if the movie sucked. so as to enable me to skulk away quietly.)
Umm, like, arrrgggggh, and stuff.
Hee hee hee.
I can't say it was the best movie I've ever seen, or even close, but it makes up for it in terms of tickling me pink.
The only complaints I had:
- the whole corset plot thread (which was dumb - women had stays that they were used to wearing, and i believe they didn't really tightlace much in this period, and HELLO, the gown that she was tightlaced for was ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE the gown she wore in the beginning as a child, except for having a split overskirt),
- and the general costuming madness. Exactly what year was this thing meant to be set in? There were about 75 years worth of clothes in that movie. That's roughly like having people in full "Titanic" gear in a movie about Carnaby Street c. 1968. Probably for most people it just "fit the mood", but for anyone who has even a little bit of fashion history under their belts, it's a little bit twitchmaking.
I threatened to go in costume, so I might as well tally that up now. I pinned my big stripey "KISS ME, I'M A PIRATE!" patch to a 3/4 sleeve hoodie that I wore as a shirt. Then I wore jeans, but folded them up a bit, so that I had cuffs and so that you could see my red-and-white striped knee socks and the mary jane style mules I was wearing. Then I wore my metallic red vinyl wristband with the skull-and-crossbone studs, and Chanel "Metal Garnet" lipstick to match. So there you go - a bit themey for everyday wear, but not so costumey that I felt like a complete loser. (the patch was only PINNED to my shirt, of course, because I wanted to be able to take it off & roll down my pantlegs if the movie sucked. so as to enable me to skulk away quietly.)
Umm, like, arrrgggggh, and stuff.
