Totally wrong for the period!
Grown ladies didn't walk around with their hair down and uncombed, even if they were poor relations! Heck, even the servants combed their hair and put it up, once they reached fourteen or so!
Not to mention that ladies of the period didn't bleach their hair so light it doesn't match their eyebrows. For shame!
Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one annoyed by her hair. It bothered me through the whole movie. It didn't make any sense why she would keep her hair down. And I also hated the dark eyebrow/ bleached hair contrast. What were the costume/makeup people thinking?
shareSo annoying. Buy a comb, lady!!!! That's the second recent adaption where the hair on the heroine was UGH!!! (Persuasion being the other one) Plus her teeth, while big and white and pretty seemed so wrong, also. This was England, remember!
shareThis was England, remember!
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Because Kate Winslet is AWESOME so nobody cares.
"I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful."
I agree otherwise, but some of us really do have blond hair and dark eyebrows, so no complaining there.
Wait! Does this also mean putting out doesn't get you love?
I am with you on this one, when I first came on and saw all the complaints about the hair and eyebrows and how bad it looked, I just wanted to say that it does happen. As a natural blonde, who has never once dyed or highlighted her hair, I have light blonde hair and dark brown eyebrows. I certainly hope people realize it does occur naturally that way. And leave poor Billie Piper alone on that one at least.
shareYeah what's up with that. I know a few natural blondes with very dark eyebrows and one is a knock out.
shareIt bothered me immensely! I would have thought that after the picnic for her coming out, she would wear her hair more mature. It was weird, I have seen many films from the same era, and only the little girls wore their hair like that. It was pretty, but too messy in my opinion.
Everything's going to change. Have a cluckity-cluck-cluck day, Hugo!
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Add my vote to fire Ms. Piper's makeup/hair crew!
Even IF a young woman were to wear her hair down (though I don't believe any aside from the lamplighter 'ladies' did during this period), cutting Fancy's hair to such a short length would never have been done!
Apparently, those 'in charge' read Austin's description of Fancy being plain to mean she was both unkempt and utterly socially ignorant. Did they not realize that even if Fanny were somehow completely unaware of the ways of society, in spite of being raised for most of her life in a higher-ranking societal family, the family would never have allowed her to look like a street urchin at the coming-out party that they held in her honor.
Really, really distracting!!
Exactly! I couldn't have put it better myself.
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"I'm sorry, but.." is a self-contained lie.
There were women who had short hair in the Regency period.
Take a look at these pictures: http://www.songsmyth.com/hairstyles.html
This is not to say that Billie Piper's hair was appropriate. It was not. But to say that short hair "would never have been done" is not completely accurate.
Check out Persuasion 1995. Lady Russell and Mrs. Croft both have short hair and, yes, it is period correct.
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