It may be more well-made, but I think Elinor looks much better in it. :-)

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that Michele Clapton ripped Jacqueline Durran off. I think it's more likely that they both responded to the spirit of our decade's idea of Jane Austen. Additionally, I'm never quite sure what to think of the P&P costumes, since my costume-savvy friends strongly disagree about them - some of them hate the costumes because they say they're a confused mishmash of periods, some of them think they're okay, and I am just confused what the whole deal Joe Wright was making about the high waistline was, since I thought the waistlines in the final film ended up being really high anyway.