this is the thread for the petticoat lovers of the world. please feel free to enter, byo teacups and whalebone.

i love and adore costume dramas. what about you?

i've just been in bliss over the beautiful bbc adaptation of north and south for the past few hours. please watch it if you're into these sorts of shows, it's one of the best adaptations i've seen.

what other such lovely petticoaty films and tv shows do people like?

tipping the velvet is a petticoaty sort of drama. great sex scenes too.
It made me want Nancy's soldier jacket though, not a petticoat.

girls in soldier jackets are very welcome at my tea party

Gone with the wind is a classic. I loved flambards but it hasn't been on for more than 20 years. A lot of the old films from the forties to the seventies had great costuming.

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Gone with the wind is a classic. I loved flambards but it hasn't been on for more than 20 years. A lot of the old films from the forties to the seventies had great costuming.

ASHLEY! OH ASHLEY!

When I was younger I used to have dreams where I was Scarlett O'Hara. Gone with the Wind is still one of my favourite books of all times.

Mmm yeah, tipping the velvet is what my mind went to :P

i always thought they should have had an actress to play nancy who was a bit more butch. a minor quibble maybe, but i guess it's not so often we get films with cross-dressing 19th-century lesbians, so it was a bit disappointing that she was so unconvincing.

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girls in soldier jackets are very welcome at my tea party

Well I shall be there then

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i always thought they should have had an actress to play nancy who was a bit more butch. a minor quibble maybe, but i guess it's not so often we get films with cross-dressing 19th-century lesbians, so it was a bit disappointing that she was so unconvincing.

I agree with you but I think they were trying to ensure that all the 'lesbians' would be attractive to straight men, I don't think they were really casting for a queer audience.

I think she passed well enough as a 'boy' but wouldn't ever pass for a man. When she was out walking with Diana in her cool blue/white suit she looked like Diana's son.

I used to watch alot of costume drama's when back home, they do alot of shows like that in the UK.

I don't know what's on anymore.

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Well I shall be there then

I agree with you but I think they were trying to ensure that all the 'lesbians' would be attractive to straight men, I don't think they were really casting for a queer audience.

I think she passed well enough as a 'boy' but wouldn't ever pass for a man. When she was out walking with Diana in her cool blue/white suit she looked like Diana's son.

now i actually feel like having a costumed garden party in the summer... maybe i shall... trina you'll have to be there in spirit

yes, i agree they must have been casting with an eye to a straight audience. which is a pity. i've always loved stories of women getting dressed up as men and rocketing through the streets in olden times. like vita sackville-west pretending to be an airman. it would be cool to see it dramatised in a way that made it seem real.

tails, i don't know what's on at the moment, i tend to just watch dvds and old favourites. but the bbc definitely put together some amazing productions.

for anybody who is not swayed by the marvels of period drama... please note... they are full of fiery beauties and witty dialogue and heartrending drama and lush set design and did i mention the fiery beauties?

Well I'll go a little broad with the costume theme..I totally dig Dangerous Liasons as a standard period type film but I am a huge royalty buff and love the Elizabeth movies, The Other Boleyn girl etc etc...All time favourite is Marie Antoinette. I know that alot of people don't like that film but I watch it every few months for

-the costumes
-the cakes
-the soundtrack
-kirsten dunst
-sophia coppola's dream like quality she casts over every film she makes..

but totally the costumes

are these films not olde worlde enough for you ladies?

I will be at any type of tea party with so many petticoats that Diana herself couldn't get through them.

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Loved it gold femme

I just love the corsets and then bloomers.

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Well I'll go a little broad with the costume theme..I totally dig Dangerous Liasons as a standard period type film but I am a huge royalty buff and love the Elizabeth movies, The Other Boleyn girl etc etc...All time favourite is Marie Antoinette. I know that alot of people don't like that film but I watch it every few months for

-the costumes
-the cakes
-the soundtrack
-kirsten dunst
-sophia coppola's dream like quality she casts over every film she makes..

but totally the costumes

are these films not olde worlde enough for you ladies?

I will be at any type of tea party with so many petticoats that Diana herself couldn't get through them.

i am experiencing strange twitches and spasms of excitement. i love all of these! especially elizabeth, and any form of sexed up royalty or court drama. like the tudors... it could get annoying, but at its best it was pretty amazing... and the actress who played anne boleyn was so gorgeous in a feline sort of way. also the the actress who played katherine howard. i got so disappointed when they got a bit of lesbian subtext going between her and a lady-in-waiting, but it came to nothing.

i really like the sort of films where they play with the genre, and don't just go all wishy washy and romantic. amadeus is one of my favourites - an oldie but still so good. and orlando - i love orlando.

i still like trashy romantic ones though, if they put some heart into it and don't just work to a formula. shakespeare in love i think is a good example. although, again, really unconvincing cross-dressing.

does anybody know any films where they actually pull the cross-dressing off? i don't think i've seen one. except orlando sort of, but you can always tell that tilda swinton is a woman.

hmmmm... i think this tea party has to happen.

costumes costumes... i am indignant that i am not an aristocratic lady of leisure with a wardrobe the size of most people's houses. i honestly think that was what i was supposed to be, and the stork dropped me off at the wrong address. and in the wrong era.

i wish i could be like a hoop-skirted doctor who, and whiz through time to all my favourite eras. lady cilipadi, flitting through time in a mission to visit every masked ball that has ever taken place, and make sure it goes swimmingly.

oh dear, i've just been youtubing to death when i should be studying

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another of my all time favourites is the leopard. i couldn't find a version with english subtitles, but it doesn't really matter when you're listening to claudia cardinale's voice

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Oooh! I loved Orlando!

Another film I like the costumes in was a trashy New Zealand film called Desperate Remedies. The main character is a woman with a female "companion" (as female lovers were sometimes known in years past). It had Bi themes too.

I loved the ladies and outfits in Tipping the Velvet and the Fingersmith (oh the nerdish beauty of Sally Hawkins *rowr*). Awesome adaptations!

OMG AMADEUS!!!!!!!

When I was 13 we watched that film in music class and the teacher asked "Does anyone know why the film is called Amadeus, when it is about a man called Wolfgang Mozart?"

My hand shot up and I was twitching in my seat to answer, akin to Hermione, but he wouldn't call on me, until every other kid in the class said they didn't know.

FINALLY I got to say: "Wolfgang Mozart's middle name was originally Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart in Latin, the common germanic interpretation of which was Johannes Wolfgang Godfried Mozart, which Mozart felt was ugly not unlyrical, because of the harsh sounds in Godfried, so he Latinized his middle name to Amadeus, as he felt that Latin was the true language of music. Both Amadeus and Godfried mean 'God's peace'/'loved by God'/'freed by God'."

I don't know why but it was one of the most fulfilling moments of my life.

ooh, i'll have to look that up violet.

ec, i also watched amadeus in music class. it blew our tiny minds.

his laugh made the entire class scared.