Given the response to my last post I think I’m lucky not to have been cyber-lynched. I knew I was taking a risk attacking the fundamental staple of Western Civilization’s fashion diet, and am terribly grateful that the shock and indignation this roused didn’t portray itself more…ahem…graphically.
All in all, I appreciate the reams of fashion advice, the handful of people who actually seem to have given me the laugh I was looking for, and I feel to apologize to the rest of you but really…they’re blue! I sometimes succeed at deluding myself but really, they’re blue!
I think my innate dorkiness has finally had its way with me. What better way to ensure that I never, ever fit in, than causing me to be averse to wearing blue jeans? If you can get past your disgust, please, pity me.
Couching my ditherings in mildly archaic language certainly isn’t helping my cause any, but alas, I spent the evening watching Anne Hathaway’s performance in Becoming Jane. Period dramas tend to overwhelm whatever small amount of good sense I have, as I’ve been besotted by that era since I was thirteen years old. With my luck I wouldn’t have been one of the higher borns sitting around reading, playing piano, doing needlepoint, writing (wait, that’s what I do now!). I would likely have been born a kitchen drudge so it’s probably best I was saved for this more modern era.
As to the film itself, I think I will choose not to comment. Though an ardent fan of her work I only know some few particulars of Jane Austen’s life and I suspect that it wasn’t accurately portrayed. At all. For fear there are as many Jane Austen fans as blue jean fans lurking amongst my readers I’ve decided not to admit to enjoying the film rather a lot.
Dang. I just have.
I’m horribly self-destructive like that.
Enough so that I’m actually going to hit the publish button before I toddle off to bed. I’ll leave you with the promise of a fabulous post with equally fabulous blog template resources highlighted therein. We’ll call it An Apology for my Dorkiness. Look for that on Friday-ish.
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Wear your jeans, or don’t. Like a bad Austen movie, or don’t (kidding, I’ve never even heard of it until this post). I just like the idea of a grown woman “toddling off” to bed! :)
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I don’t wear jeans much either. I need some new ones and haven’t got round to shopping for some yet, so I’m normally in black bootleg trousers. I do like jeans though, it’s just the ones that fit my belly are too big and baggy on my legs. And I will watch that film now. I have veered away from it so far.
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I haven’t seen Becoming Jane yet but it’s on my list of ‘to watch’. I’m also very much in love with the era and like you wish I could go back but fear my life as a blacksmithy’s daughter LOL :)
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OH! Forgot to mention I love your your new page theme ;)
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I’ve never seen it either, but have heard it is very good, so I may have to go borrow it from the library or something. About the jeans, I’d rather wear warm up pants all day, but to look presentable, I feel like I have to at least wear jeans. Never dress pants (I don’t even own a pair), and a dress only when I HAVE to.
I love the new look on your blog!
I’m not a Jane Austen fan. I get bored too easily. That said, I think Anne Hathaway is beautiful, and I may have to watch the show just so I can adore Anne.
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Frankly my dear, I don’t care what you wear as long as you are comfortable that is all that matters. I haven’t seen the Jane Austin movie to be able to comment ont hat one.
I loved Becoming Jane. A lot. I bought it. I never buy movies. But I bought that one.
And because I grew up with a lit professor in England, and I’ve read every word of every book many times (and had read them all before I was even 12 years old), and I’ve been to her home and every place ever mentioned in one of her books, I feel like I have some idea of what I’m talking about.
Oh, sure, there will be those who say that it’s not historically accurate. And… well… they’re right. We know that Jane never married, we know that there were suitors, though, and that one of them was Tom LeFroy. We have no reason to believe that anything very serious happened between them, though. He was just one of several. Also, we know that he named his daughter Jane, but PLEASE! Who DIDN’T name their daughter “Jane” at that time?!
But, um, WHO CARES!? It’s a great story, and that’s all it’s meant to be. And Anne Hathaway is fantastic in it. (Did I ever tell you that when I was a kid, i wanted to marry someone whose last name was “Hathaway”? Because that was Shakespeare’s wife’s name, doncha know. And then when Anne Hathaway came on the scene in Princess Diaries, i was so annoyed. She TOOK MY NAME. But then she was so cute and charming that I got over it.)
Oh. Mygosh. I’m totally rambling in your comments. The sad part is that I could totally keep going… and going… and going…
But I will spare you. Cuz I’m nice like that.
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I love the look! Orange was never a favorite color of mine… till recently. Now my closet shows how much I’m enjoying the oranges of life! :)
I haven’t seen the movie… I’ve only read one Jane Austen book – Wuthering Heights- and I struggled. A friend told me that I had picked the least favorite among Austen fans to start with. I wanted to read one that I wasn’t as familiar with the story… but, I think, after November, I might try Pride and Prejudice. We’ll see…
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You know, some of my favorite people are dorks – you, me, my husband, my sister – so don’t beat yourself up about it. Dorks of the world, unite!
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Hear, hear, fellow kitchen drudge!
Wait, no, I would have been a mousy governess…
I like that movie.
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From one dork to another – I love being a dork. It’s so refreshing and liberating, don’t you think? And how have I not heard about this movie? Even if it isn’t super-historically-accurate, I’m sure I could enjoy it if it has any other redeeming qualities.
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i agree about the movie. and i don’t think austen would have fallen for such a pantywaist schmuck irl.
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I liked that movies….although after I finished it I went and researched Jane Austen on the internet. You’re right they did take “dramatic license” with nearly every single aspect of that movie…but I still liked it. ;) Of course I think James McAvoy is FINE so that may have had something to do with it…though I didn’t like his character that much…
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Ah, we should embrace our inner dork. It’s what makes us funny and entertaining I think. Because really if you can’t have a good laugh at your own expense who are you going to laugh at.
I wondered about that Jane Austen film. I’ve never seen it because I feared it wouldn’t be terribly accurate.
So did you make this lovely new blog template or did you swipe it from somewhere?
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I’m a bit off today. I want to comment on bloggers annex and here. Let’s see if I get back to that bloggers annex comment okay? If not, then let me say here that I LOVE that post on the annex. Nextly, you are so adorable. Not like a child (although I think you did say toddle off) but adorable as in loveable grown-up. :)
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You are too Funny. I love you. Even if you don’t wear jeans. (I guess we can’t start a sisterhood of the traveling pants can we?)
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I think pajama bottoms go with everything. I wish I could wear them to church. And if they don’t, don’t tell me. I’m sure my kids will let me know when they’re teenagers. And if I don’t catch myself saying “I’m such a dork” at least once a day, there’s something wrong with me. :)
LOVE the new look…and I also love whenever someone fabulous like you calls herself a dork! :)
If it makes you feel any better, I have Becoming Jane in my Netflix cue, and I also read Shannon Hale’s Austenland over the summer.
Have a great weekend, and when you put on whatever you’re putting on, feel free to think of me in my bluejeans! :)
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I love the new look too! And about the jeans thing: I don’t wear slacks because jeans tend to hide my much too ample stomach better. I don’t think I’ve ever tried on a pair of slacks that look nice on me. Plus, things tend to wash out of jeans for me better than other clothes. Since I was first pregnant 9 years ago I haven’t gotten over the ’spilling everything on myself’ stage. If I don’t do it, my kids do. But, you want to know a secret? I think you’re very classy and I secretly admire you for being so put together.
Guess it’s not a secret anymore!
And that movie is one that I really want to see.
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Ah well, I will buck the trend here and say I disliked the movie immensely. Then I will run and hide under a blanket so you can’t find me and force me to like it. And just ignore the feet sticking out. If I can’t see you, you can’t see me, right?
Love you!
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I get in the Jane-speak mode, too, especially when I am writing a Jane Austen era romance. Since my mother and sisters inhaled these kinds of books like a kid does candy, I grew up hearing and saying things like “we needs must get ready for church now” and, well, there are others but I won’t go into more detail. I got creamed in jr. high for talking “like that” and have had to watch myself ever since. I also fret about color coordination but I am lucky in that I can buy into the jeans=neutral thing. It has saved me a lot of discomfort, I am sure. Don’t let them hassel you about it!
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I am glad you will be dorky with me.
I still need to watch that movie.
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Oh I’ve so wanted to see that movie! I just haven’t yet. Jane Austen is my absolute favorite author. Maybe I’ll go watch it just so that I can let you know how close or not it is. (but I’m guessing they stretched a bit for a good story, but I’m sure the movie is still great….I love Anne Hathaway)
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