Dew of the Sea Costume History, Theology & Thoughts

  Anne's wincey dress: A comparison. Book: when we first meet the well-loved red-headed heroine is wearing                          “very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-white wincey”  W incey is a fabric originating in the British isles made of a twill weave with a linen warp and a woollen weft. It was a coarse and scratchy fabric that would definitely make you "wincey" a bit!                          This petticoat (probably from the Victorian Era) is labelled as being made of wincey or Lindsey- woolsey (the alternate name for it). This too is a yellowish colour it may even have begun the same colour as Anne's (yellowish-white) and yellowed with age!   Put your Anneish imaginations to work and imagine this fabric as a dress, a short tight and ugly dress and there you have it! Anne's dress. So using this information, how does the film compare? So in the film it's important to know the key things the designer might have had to take into account

  A beloved classic! Don't we all love the fine-eyed, spirited, sharp-tongued Lizzy Bennet; tall, dashing, unsociable Darcy; their timeless romantic journey...  Looking at the title of this post, you must know as well as I do that the two most popular adaptations of Jane Austen's enduring classic are debatable, regarding who gets first place. Quite frankly, I have to say it's an overall draw. But there are specific categories in which one beats the other, so let's take a look at these now.  Disclaimer: big fans of the novel here, so you'll find us comparing back to the original content.  Cinematography Joe Wright's version came out in 2005 and stunned audiences with breathtaking views and atmospheric music to accompany them. Lizzy's trip to the northern county of Derbyshire, browsing the peaks, is an especially treasured highlight. The piano-based soundtrack makes for an exciting, climatic experience at multiple moments in the film.  Camera swirling and all-

  Beth March, sweet, unassuming, gentle Beth... This dear girl is the last of the March sisters in my Little Women comparison/analysis series. Naturally we have low expectations of fashion with Beth being a shy girl, rather wishing to stay at home a lot of the time. L.M Alcott did however describe Beth wearing a scarlet wrapper in the later half of Little Women, also in a separate book called Good Wives. Now that is interesting, because I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Victorians thought red was a warming, healthy colour that could improve the health of the wearer. Now with Beth's ill health, the choice of a red wrapper has an especial meaning which you can take or leave.  In this scene it is portrayed as summertime so Beth's cotton print dress makes perfect sense you cannot see much in this picture, but notice the sleeve seam drops off the edge of the shoulder in the 1860s it was fashionable to have low shoulder seams to give a rounded look and also to help make the i