dress difference

Elouise 2022-12-15 20:01:47

I saw the version of Northanger Abbey in 1987, and the comparison in 2007 is the difference in clothing.

In fact, the classic original films made in recent years have a remarkable feature, that is, all the dresses are low-cut and very low. But the strange thing is that most of the dresses in Northanger Abbey in 1987 were round necks and low-cut ones, but there were fewer.

At first, I always wondered how in the 18th and 19th centuries without air conditioning, how did women survive the cold winter and wear so cool all year round in social occasions. How women generally dress in this period of history seems to be a textual research.

Although there is also evidence to support that they were so topless in the early days, for example, in Sissi's early films, their dresses were quite low-cut, or many of the women in the oil paintings of that period were like this.

I'm so bored.

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Northanger Abbey quotes

  • Mrs. Allen: There! Did you ever see anything prettier, Mr Allen?

    Mr. Allen: Other than yourself, do you mean, my dear?

    Mrs. Allen: Oh, fine, Mr Allen! But Catherine...

    Mr. Allen: Ah, she looks just as she should! Now... might we make our way, do you think? I entertain high hopes of our arriving at the rooms by midnight.

    Mrs. Allen: How he teases us, Catherine! Midnight, indeed!

  • [Riding in the curricle, Henry and Catherine see the first view of Northanger Abbey]

    Henry Tilney: There.

    Catherine Morland: It's exactly as I imagined. It's just like what we read about.

    Henry Tilney: Are you prepared to encounter all of its horrors?

    Catherine Morland: Horrors? Is Northanger haunted, then?

    Henry Tilney: That's just the least of it. Dungeons, and sliding panels; skeletons; strange, unearthly cries in the night that pierce your very soul!

    Catherine Morland: [sardonically] Any vampires? Don't say vampires. I could bear anything, but not vampires.

    Henry Tilney: [laughing] Miss Morland, I believe you are teasing me now.

    [seriously]

    Henry Tilney: I have to say, there is a kind of vampirism. No, let's just say that all houses have their secrets, and Northanger is no exception.