We're so glad this #BTPPAdventCalendar is finding an equally receptive audience over here where the skies are blue.
Merry Christmas, happy holidays, happy Hanukkah, and we wish you all good spirits (liquid or otherwise).
THE END.
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Last one, so: one, two, three: AWWWWWWWW!!
The double wedding takes place before Christmas, aptly enough for our purposes. Once again, we're in morning dress for the fellas, and the ladies with day-length sleeves, though in more luxurious fabrics.
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After that piping-filled lull, we're back to the action. Nothing says 'action' like Lady Catherine de Bourgh sweeping in. Hurricane Catherine, a whirl of luxury fabrics. Lace, silk velvet, a mink(?) tippet and a really high, therefore fashionable, bonnet crown
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It's a quiet period at Longbourn and the girls are about their employment. Mary's doing her music, Kitty is trimming a bonnet (😍), Lizzy and Jane are boy-talking, with herbs, and later, the table is covered with their handiwork. 🥰 these Austeny details.
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Into the home straight now...
We start with a wedding, and Lydia's peculiar inability to tie her bonnet ribbons. Wedding were conducted in the morning so men and women wore morning dress. Veils were optional, as was white. The Dress wasn't a massive deal.
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Today we start with some love for secondary characters. Mrs Phillips is a dedicated follower of fashion and it's fantastic. She must have swooned when the Bingley sisters (FASHUN!) rolled into town. Such clothes, sister! Douze points for that feather.
We interrupt our Pride & Prejudice Advent Calendar #BTPPAdventCalendar coverage to remind you that if you like these threads, and Regency fashion, you might like the books over at @austendress.bsky.social. They taught us everything we know. There's a third one coming next year!
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And so, we return to Longbourn and some shots of the gratuitously good costuming of the Gardiner children. Look at her red shoes! LOVE these outfits. So cute, so right.
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Ruh roh! Something is rotten in the state of Longbourn. However, it's a great excuse for a Bennet nightwear line up.
Mr Bennet is ROCKING a knitted nightcap avec tassel, and a nightshirt with a fetching frill. He's nearly dashing.
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Finally Darcy's favourite gals meet, and do some more clothing reflection, pale blue spencer to pale blue spencer. Georgiana's wardrobe is so pretty - a more expensive version of genteel dress, like Lizzy's, but never overreaching like the Bingley sisters
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It's HEEEEE-EEEERRRRRRREEEE!!!!!!!
The one, the only, the iconic, the emblematic scene of this and all other Austen adaptations; 'the scene that changed everything', as the BBC called it. And we're gonna deep dive (ha!) into it.
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There's a fair bit of travelling at this point. Lydia is off to Brighton, and after hassling for new clothes, clearly got them. Phwoar! Much fashion, many style. Check out the points on that jacket. Very nice.
Golly, we're over halfway through! Attentive readers will realise what's just around the corner....
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Meanwhile, across country in Meryton, Kitty and Lydia are treating everyone to lunch except they have no money, kicking off a run of printed pale frocks.
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Episode 4. Darcy continues his excellent trouser wearing. In fact, we learn he has worn trousers since he was a lad, so roughly the mid-1790s, which we'd have to look into though is probably okay.
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Shall we talk about Darcy's trousers? Let's!
Well, he wears them. Well, DER, you say. But we mean ankle-length trousers as opposed to knee-length breeches or tight pantaloons. Newly fashionable, part of the deep changes happening in Regency dress.
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Let's cut straight to the big question: What Is On Lady Catherine De Bourgh's Head?
Is it a cap? Is it a turban? Is that scarf bit attached? Where does it come from? Where will it go?
By this point, we trust the costume designer has a source, but what?
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No real theme here as we start episode three, for we hasten to get on to Rosings, and make up for lost time, with the same eagerness certain Bennet ladies have for talking to soldiers.
A twofer today, because we forgot yesterday. Weirdly, we had hiccups this same time the year we first posted
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We're jumping back an episode for some unused screenshots to talk about the Bingley sisters. FASHUN! (this must be called every time they appear).
If you haven't caught up with the Bill and Ted Test 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice Advent Calendar, you might want to jump in at the Netherfield Ball entry, when everyone is in their best kit.
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Sucks to be proposed to by an idiot after looking so pretty at a party. Once you know it's a wig, it's hard not to notice Lizzy's hairstyle doesn't change.
Note also that she and Jane wear copies of the Austen sisters' topaz crosses most of the time.
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One of the (then) groundbreaking things about this adaptation was the active physicality. The way the characters walk also gives a great sense of how Regency clothing moved and clung in action. Outlines of legs!
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It's the quiet attention to details that make so much of the costuming work smoothly. Breakfast scene, Mr. B comfy, all the ladies in day dress with subtly different habit shirts (chemisettes) according to their character. Lydia's is transparent.
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One of the glorious things about this production is the hair. The accuracy, the variety, the fact that absolutely none of it is half-up. Blonde Jennifer Ehle rightly thanked her wigs when she won the Best Actress BAFTA.
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One of the important things to realise about this adapation is there are two oppositions in tension throughout. Not pride and prejudice; not town and country; not Bennet and Bingley.
No. The crucial spot-the-difference is whether a lady is Team Corset…
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Da boyz are in da Meryton-Netherfield hood. Superb evocation of riding dress, right in silhouette from top hat to toes. Flowing coats! Manly thighs!
Though why are her gown skirt AND petticoat doused in mud? The whole point was she hoicked up her skirt so only the underskirt got muddy - sensible - then let down her gown to conceal it.
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You know what else is sewing-tastic in this episode? The red drawstring bag Lizzie takes to Netherfield isn't a reticule, or handbag. It's probably her workbag, containing her current sewing on to occupy her amongst company (it *could* be her indoor shoes, but sewing's better).
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aaaaannd PLAY!
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Okay, we're in like Flynn right from the beginning. First glimpse is - sewing. Magnifique. A woman's hand, working chain stitch on marked muslin, with all the right tools. The rest of the close ups are nice too, but query pink fabric.
It's back!: THE BILL AND TED TEST ADVENT CALENDAR.
One post a day on the BBC 1995 Pride and Prejudice until 25th December.
The fine print: Going through from start to finish; episodes in order so no skipping ahead to Mr Wet Shirt 1812, thank you. Four posts per episode.
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