They are very beautiful! But they don't have much to do with the 18th century :-)

The accents... oh my. And those costumes! Glorious and ridiculous.

Have any of you ever seen "Captain America: the First Avenger"?

Redhead here- I use the suave one in a spray can and I really like it too! In a pinch I use cornstarch and it works fine, too. But the spray thing makes it nice and easy.

I'm guessing you've seen Brigadoon, then? It's more ballet-inspired, but their dance scenes together are still pretty great. And it's a cute, cheesy story.

David Milch gets social anxiety during auditions, so he prefers to cast people that he already knows rather than get new actors. His commentary on the DVDs is priceless!

Jersey is America's best kept secret. We put all that toxic stuff near the border so that they will never know about our majestic mountains, cranberry bogs and the Short Hills Mall.

No, I never heard of it!

Do you know a good resource for original fairy tales? I really love the Datlow and Windling collections of re-told ones, but I would love to get my hands on some nitty-gritty old timey ones. Are they published anywhere?

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

Do you like the 2003 adaptation with Jason Isaacs? I think it is SO MUCH BETTER than the old animated one, and really makes the story about one girl on the edge of puberty having reservations about entering the frightening world of Edwardian womanhood. It has some problematic sexualized content, but even that part…

There have been rumors for a long time about "Wicked" being adapted as a movie. I don't condone this choice at all, but maybe the studio put the wizard at the helm of this one because someone else already had the rights to a prequel starring the witches? And they didn't want people to confuse the two movies? In any…

You're right.

Look up Valerie Steele. She is a highly respected fashion historian with a PhD from Yale and argues very convincingly that corsets did no such thing. I trust her much more than Wikipedia.

... your lungs aren't usually at your waistline. Hers are fine.

One thing to remember about this particular case is that it was VERY unusual- Polaire was very famous because she had such a tiny waist. Foot-binding was done against girls' wills- Polaire was more like those hipsters who stretch their earlobes. She was trying to stand out and get famous, it went with her 'exotic'…

Agreed

She is definitely wearing one- you can see how her hips flair at the bottom, which doesn't happen without a little support. It's really weird that the costumers chose that- corsets weren't worn very tight in that decade, that small of a waist was not in style at all. And the upper class women aren't seen wearing…

yeah we've heard.

Did I ever judge someone? I said that manicures are vain: they are. Some other commenter replied that they were compulsory for career women, that was her personal excuse for not giving them up. Glad you enjoy them. I never said anything to 'judge' people who get them.