Marianne's brown velvet dress that she wears in the promo photo (in your icon) and when she plays the library piano at Delaford is Lizzy's Pemberley dress in P&P. There has been talk that her white sheer dress with the blue sash that she wears sitting on the grass with Elinor is Marianne Dashwood's from the '95 S&S, and this website HERE (http://www.costumersguide.com/reused_regency.shtml) might be of some interest to you. :-)
Lady Catherine also has the 1770s/1780s-ish costumes, which I took to be an attempt to show how unyielding and stubborn she was. Older people are commonly portrayed as wearing "the fashions of their youth" in films. ;-)
sleeveless dresses are indeed period accurate for a very brief span
Not in England they weren't. As far as I am aware, the only surviving historical proof of "sleeveless" outergarments is a Russian example, and Russia (as well as several other countries) had very different ideas of fashion than England and France. They're not always interchangeable. This was a big subject of discussion over at The Republic of Pemberley (http://www.pemberley.com/) when the movie came out.
Re: Stripey Dresses
So would I!!
Marianne's brown velvet dress that she wears in the promo photo (in your icon) and when she plays the library piano at Delaford is Lizzy's Pemberley dress in P&P. There has been talk that her white sheer dress with the blue sash that she wears sitting on the grass with Elinor is Marianne Dashwood's from the '95 S&S, and this website HERE (http://www.costumersguide.com/reused_regency.shtml) might be of some interest to you. :-)
Lady Catherine also has the 1770s/1780s-ish costumes, which I took to be an attempt to show how unyielding and stubborn she was. Older people are commonly portrayed as wearing "the fashions of their youth" in films. ;-)
sleeveless dresses are indeed period accurate for a very brief span
Not in England they weren't. As far as I am aware, the only surviving historical proof of "sleeveless" outergarments is a Russian example, and Russia (as well as several other countries) had very different ideas of fashion than England and France. They're not always interchangeable. This was a big subject of discussion over at The Republic of Pemberley (http://www.pemberley.com/) when the movie came out.