Finally, the two have found their match in a special exhibit of costumes from Jane Austen’s film adaptations, making its North American debut at Cincinnati’s Taft Museum of Art. So, with help from several other Janeites, I’ve compiled an essential, if not exhaustive, guide to 20 iconic Austen adaptation ensembles. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a set of acclaimed film costumes must be in want of a museum exhibit. It was published anonymously By A Lady appears on the title page where the authors name might have been. I can’t distinguish a Spencer from a pelisse, one bonnet’s trim from another’s, or determine what I’d do with a reticule.īut I do know which outfits from the many film adaptations do a concise job of advancing plot and characterization, and imprinting themselves on viewers’ memories. Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. Now, though I’m more enamored of re-watching Austen adaptations than Marianne Dashwood is of handsome and dashing suitors, I cannot really claim to be a Regency fashionista. It is too handsome to be worn - almost too handsome to be looked at.”Īlthough Austen’s novels almost all deal with the themes of self-knowledge, growing up, and the nature of romantic love, she was hardly above loving or thinking about fashion.Īnd neither are her readers today, from the directors who adapt her novels to her avid and obsessive fans. “My cloak came on Tuesday, and, though I expected a good deal, the beauty of the lace astonished me. “Our abuse of our gowns amuses but does not discourage me I shall take mine to be made up next week, and the more I look at it the better it pleases me,” Jane Austen wrote to her sister.
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