I was fascinated watching this movie and the dresses Emma wore. How elegant and beautiful they are. I wish these would come back in style - femininity has really gone out the door. I would love to wear clothes like these!
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The Empire waist is not flattering to everyone. I'd look pregnant in one of those dresses. LOL!
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, how lovely. Those dresses just oozed with femininity (as I sit here typing in my blue jeans, sigh).
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
Back in the mid sixties those "Empire line" dresses came back into fashion for a while. I had one in 1966.
In the late 1970s, my sister turned 18 and we decided on a Parlour Games party, with all the guests asked to come in costume. We bought my sister, who was slim, a second-hand 1960s wedding dress, which was empire line, like Emma's dresses. She wore a rose pink satin sash, and her beautiful shiny dark-brown hair gathered on either side with pink rosebuds. She looked quite exquisite!
All the teenage boys vied with each other for her attention. But her "Mr Knightly", a somewhat older young man, came to the party as the guest of a school friend. They were married later that year, and have been together for 30 years. I am sure it was the demure white dress and the rosebuds that did it!
I am sure that you want to know what I wore to the party, as well. I have always been rather buxom, so I went for a very different look, which used a great deal of pink satin, as well as striped taffeta, tulle and a large bustle. I looked rather like the sort of Roaring Nineties tart that you see in the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec, or leaning on the piano in bars in Westerns.
"great minds think differently"
Her hairstyles in this are extremely beautiful, too. Obviously they are kind of ornate to create, and it would be hard to place the ringlets and small braids and waves symetrically yourself....but at the same time, they generally come across as quite simple.
This is my favorite, lighter Paltrow performance. (She's also good in the starker Hard 8.)
I agree. These styles made women look really beautiful and even sexy compared to most of what goes on today unless you think sexy means exposing as much as possible. Of course having to have the right figure is a point, but still these fashions created a lovely vision of femininity.
They were a reaction against all those stiff brocades and dresses you couldn't even sit down in, in most of the 18th century;and though the curls could be a bit intricate they were a far cry from the gigantic powdered structures women had to wear before. In the Early Romantic Era everything had to be more "natural". The result is that they look rather modern except for the bonnets. What I don't get is why women went back to gigantic dresses with innumerable petticoats, bustles, and corsets in the Victorian Era after they had just freed themselves from all that.
Ah, the evolution of fashion reflecting social change and all that.....
I agree. Back in the sixties, there was a freedom and simplicity of dress which was liberating. I can't understand why today's young women have resubjected themselves to the tyranny of ultra high heels, unnaturally huge boobs, etc.
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