Contrary to popular belief, an empire waist does not a Victorian maiden make.
The fact that she’s gazing off into the distance isn’t cutting it, either. Her gaze is neither delicate, nor wistful. She looks like she just saw the Aurora Borealis.
Eh, Heathcliff was Emily Bronte’s. Different era, different outfits. I’m pretty sure tye dye was OUT by the time the Brontes were dying of TB one by one.
So she took the time to make a cyclorama out of an old sheet for the photo shoot, shaved her pits and did her hair, but never thought “maybe I ought to put something on my ugly feet, since they are going to stand out so well on my clean white sheet”
I have no problem with this. I read Jane Austen between selling veggie burritos and taking hits of nitrous while I was following the Grateful Dead 1974 tour up the East coast.
I have no problem with this. In fact, I think I HAVE this, except with pockets. I wear it to teacher meetings at my daughter’s school to ensure that she won’t misbehave enough for a further meeting, and also to other school functions so the other parents will stay the hell away from me.
And it’s photographed properly. Bare feet are de rigeur with this sort of frockery. In fact, you lose your hippie ID beads if you wear shoes with this.
I’m actually glad my mother is dead and can’t see this. She used to write Regency-era novels and this would have killed her.
I’m all for keyword spamming (let’s face it this is not going to sell unless there’s some effort put in!) but you have to wonder how many people actually search for Jane Austen inspired clothing on Etsy?
I’m not to keen on the Photoshop work on this photo. Fake background, fake foot shadow, and no work on the age spots and wrinkles on her feet? I wonder where she was really standing when this photo was taken.
Why do so many sellers get photographed in their product? I understand it when the seller is attractive or interesting looking. When the seller draws attention away from their product there is a problem.
It is not enough to have a nice body. If you make stupid expressions, have a manly face or big butt hire someone to model your product.
I am not saying this seller has any of the above but hiring out a model might do her some good. JMHO
yes.. i can see the logical connection between the free love and woman’s liberation movements, and Jane Austen
The Sixties were all about polite, mannered drawing room society and finding a proper husband… Until Don Draper started the Vietnam war to scare off the Beatles[citation needed].
I’ve seen people wearing stranger things, but then, I DO live in upstate New York.
:/ uh so she.. took a dress pattern from the 1800′s and tyedyed it. *sigh* it’s a fine dress fine pattern people remake old styles all the time. i could even say i like it some. but what does it have to do with Jane Austin?? or hippies for that matter?
They only mentioned Jane Austen because of the STYLE of the dress (Empire Waist and baggy everywhere else). Some people looking for that style of dress, may not know of any fashion terms for it. It is just smart merchandising to use any and all keywords that help potential customers find your shop.
August 18, 2010 at 9:38 am
No Fashion Sense and Sensibility
August 18, 2010 at 9:40 am
I have not Emmapathy for this seller.
August 18, 2010 at 9:41 am
There isn’t enough Persuasion in the world to get me to wear this dress.
(Stop me – I gotta million of ‘em!)
August 18, 2010 at 9:43 am
Also, a lady NEVER shows her ankles; that would be lustful to the highest degree!
August 18, 2010 at 9:44 am
High Waist : Regency :: Gears and Shit glued on :: Steampunk
August 18, 2010 at 9:45 am
Ooh, got the notation on that one wrong. That’ll teach me to read Regretsy all day instead of studying.
(No it won’t. It won’t one god damn bit.)
August 18, 2010 at 9:47 am
@Mistletoe: I got the SAT reference right away, punctuation be damned!
(Also, I meant to say “no Emmapathy” not “not” – sigh)
August 18, 2010 at 9:50 am
Regretsy posts: damaging brain cells since… um… 2000-something…?
August 18, 2010 at 10:01 am
HEEEATHCLIIIIFF!
No way that’s a real hippie. She’s got shaved pits.
August 18, 2010 at 10:03 am
Come to think of it, I don’t think shaved pits are particularly regency-era either.
August 18, 2010 at 10:05 am
Travelgrrl, are you saying you have far too much personal Pride and Prejudice against hippie fashion to wear this dress?
August 18, 2010 at 10:05 am
Also:
Mr. Darcy, I’m afraid I’m at a loss. What exactly is the meaning of “Double rainbow all the way?”
August 18, 2010 at 10:10 am
Contrary to popular belief, an empire waist does not a Victorian maiden make.
The fact that she’s gazing off into the distance isn’t cutting it, either. Her gaze is neither delicate, nor wistful. She looks like she just saw the Aurora Borealis.
August 18, 2010 at 10:10 am
Eh, Heathcliff was Emily Bronte’s. Different era, different outfits. I’m pretty sure tye dye was OUT by the time the Brontes were dying of TB one by one.
August 18, 2010 at 10:11 am
Victorian was quite a bit later – more “Georgian”.
Not that the dress is either.
August 18, 2010 at 10:16 am
So she took the time to make a cyclorama out of an old sheet for the photo shoot, shaved her pits and did her hair, but never thought “maybe I ought to put something on my ugly feet, since they are going to stand out so well on my clean white sheet”
August 18, 2010 at 10:16 am
I have no problem with this. I read Jane Austen between selling veggie burritos and taking hits of nitrous while I was following the Grateful Dead 1974 tour up the East coast.
…or at least I think I did.
August 18, 2010 at 10:26 am
i’ll take “what would a post-menopausal rainbow brite wear to bingo nite at the VFW” for a thousand, alex.
August 18, 2010 at 10:28 am
I wonder how high you have to be to think this has anything to do with Jane Austen.
Unfortunately we see far too much of this in Portland.
August 18, 2010 at 10:30 am
I have no problem with this. In fact, I think I HAVE this, except with pockets. I wear it to teacher meetings at my daughter’s school to ensure that she won’t misbehave enough for a further meeting, and also to other school functions so the other parents will stay the hell away from me.
August 18, 2010 at 10:32 am
And it’s photographed properly. Bare feet are de rigeur with this sort of frockery. In fact, you lose your hippie ID beads if you wear shoes with this.
I’m actually glad my mother is dead and can’t see this. She used to write Regency-era novels and this would have killed her.
August 18, 2010 at 10:34 am
It’s nice that she wants to get her son violin lessons but there has to be another way to get the money. Preferably one that’s easier on our eyes.
August 18, 2010 at 10:40 am
Kids these days, thinkin’ the ’60s is the “olden days”. Back in my day, giant shoulder pads and stirrup pants were all the rage.
So if this tie-dyed shit is “Jane Austen”, then my fluffy lavender prom dress from 1984 is Steampunk.
I have a photo.
August 18, 2010 at 10:41 am
And Jane Austen rolls over in her grave. And then claws her way out and joins the Family:
Travelgrrl, yeah, you’re right, but I tend to bunch all those Brontes and Austens together in a wistful, purple wad.
August 18, 2010 at 10:42 am
Hey Helen, I can only see this listing if I come through the Facebook link. I still see the fisherman’s net poncho if I come directly to Regretsy.
August 18, 2010 at 10:43 am
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a tie-dyed dress must be in want of remaining single.
August 18, 2010 at 10:44 am
HA! Sneaky changing the title on us, HK.
Oh, I had to. Someone came up with it in the Facebook thread and I loved it too much not to use it. – HK
August 18, 2010 at 10:48 am
Austen Powers was also pretty great.
August 18, 2010 at 10:48 am
I can’t believe it takes her up to two weeks to make something that looks like this. My friends’ kids can do this in under an hour with finger paints.
August 18, 2010 at 10:52 am
I’m all for keyword spamming (let’s face it this is not going to sell unless there’s some effort put in!) but you have to wonder how many people actually search for Jane Austen inspired clothing on Etsy?
August 18, 2010 at 11:03 am
I give her credit for creating a garment that doesn’t look like it would disintegrate in a light rain.
August 18, 2010 at 11:11 am
So just because it’s empire line, you can tag it with “jane austen”. Okey dokey.
Apart from that, I quite like this dress. *hides from the rotten tomatoes thrown at her*
August 18, 2010 at 11:26 am
Sorry but that dress clashes with Jane’s lovely eyes. I don’t think she would have worn it.
August 18, 2010 at 11:27 am
@#24 Suda: That’s because this post doesn’t actually exist, it’s just a flashback from the brown acid at Woodstock.
August 18, 2010 at 11:29 am
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August 18, 2010 at 12:39 pm
All Jane needs now is a set of skants and she’s ready for a hot game of ving et un, a quadrille, or some festive needlework.
August 18, 2010 at 12:55 pm
“An artist cannot do anything slovenly.But seriously, WTF is this shit?”
Jane Austen
August 18, 2010 at 12:57 pm
from the seller’s store
For when Ronald McDonald wants to get freaky naughty.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/33017498/custom-order-tie-dye-bathrobes-in-rayon?ref=v1_other_1
August 18, 2010 at 1:21 pm
I’m not to keen on the Photoshop work on this photo. Fake background, fake foot shadow, and no work on the age spots and wrinkles on her feet? I wonder where she was really standing when this photo was taken.
August 18, 2010 at 1:21 pm
BTW, THIS is steampunk!
http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/art/victorian-star-wars-paintings/
August 18, 2010 at 1:21 pm
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August 18, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Austen totally started the hippie movement! Didn’t you people know that?
August 18, 2010 at 2:11 pm
sENSIMILLA? The rainbow jizz tye dye is made from HEMP?!!! Our founding Fathers would be proud
August 18, 2010 at 2:25 pm
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August 18, 2010 at 2:31 pm
The wrinkled backdrop in all the pictures is very annoying! I hope she did not pay for those photos.
August 18, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Holy crap, I thought the flashbacks would taper off after all these years , but noooo, they’re back – in cruel technicolor.
August 18, 2010 at 2:50 pm
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August 18, 2010 at 3:19 pm
@siriusimagery: What? Molly Shannon isn’t a good enough model for you?
August 18, 2010 at 3:30 pm
I’ll finally have something to wear to cocktail hour at the Regal Beagle.
August 18, 2010 at 3:56 pm
@whimsicalisthenics lol nope. I really do not see Mary Katherine Gallagher selling hot clothing ;o).
August 18, 2010 at 3:58 pm
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August 18, 2010 at 4:11 pm
My chakras are tingling right now.
August 18, 2010 at 4:39 pm
yes.. i can see the logical connection between the free love and woman’s liberation movements, and Jane Austen
The Sixties were all about polite, mannered drawing room society and finding a proper husband… Until Don Draper started the Vietnam war to scare off the Beatles[citation needed].
I’ve seen people wearing stranger things, but then, I DO live in upstate New York.
August 18, 2010 at 5:14 pm
at last they have found a use for all the fabric dye they have been hoarding
August 19, 2010 at 5:28 am
Im not buying this untill she grows some pit hair, not authentic at all!
August 19, 2010 at 8:18 am
Actually, Jane Austen was well known for hittin’ the 5 footer with her Jamaican brah-dus…mon.
August 19, 2010 at 8:58 am
http://www.etsy.com/listing/45303544/silk-sunrise-veil
Such an intense look on her face!
August 19, 2010 at 11:49 am
Man, let’s all get high and read books about proper women.
August 21, 2010 at 6:02 pm
:/ uh so she.. took a dress pattern from the 1800′s and tyedyed it. *sigh* it’s a fine dress fine pattern people remake old styles all the time. i could even say i like it some. but what does it have to do with Jane Austin?? or hippies for that matter?
August 26, 2010 at 7:49 pm
don’t forget darcy…
August 26, 2010 at 7:50 pm
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April 3, 2011 at 3:10 pm
They only mentioned Jane Austen because of the STYLE of the dress (Empire Waist and baggy everywhere else). Some people looking for that style of dress, may not know of any fashion terms for it. It is just smart merchandising to use any and all keywords that help potential customers find your shop.