2024 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

PipneyJane

Did anyone else watch 4:50 from Paddington over the weekend?  It’s one of the Joan Hickson Marples.  (It was broadcast on Drama.). No spoilers, but I spent the entire film wishing that I had Lucy’s black suit.  It was so beautifully cut.

- Pip

ETA:  I’m kicking myself that I didn’t pause the telly to take a photo.  Can’t find one via Google.  The suit consisted of a long, straight, fitted skirt, plus a 3-button, tailored jacket that finished mid-hip.  Very late 1950’s.  (The film was set in 1961.)

MrsCD

If you download the app for UKTVplay, you can watch the Miss Marple film again, and maybe take a photo. It won't let me do a screenshot.

PipneyJane

MrsCD said:

If you download the app for UKTVplay, you can watch the Miss Marple film again, and maybe take a photo. It won't let me do a screenshot.

Done via my iPad.  Sadly @MrsCD, I when I took screenshots, they turned out black.  Very clever computer programming, but very annoying.

I will have to wait until DH is playing games online with his mates, and then try rewatching via the app on the television, photographing the screen.  Could be a couple of weeks before that happens.

- Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

PipneyJane said:

MrsCD said:

If you download the app for UKTVplay, you can watch the Miss Marple film again, and maybe take a photo. It won't let me do a screenshot.

Done via my iPad.  Sadly @MrsCD, I when I took screenshots, they turned out black.  Very clever computer programming, but very annoying.

I will have to wait until DH is playing games online with his mates, and then try rewatching via the app on the television, photographing the screen.  Could be a couple of weeks before that happens.

- Pip

If you can tell me exactly which shot you would like, I can take screenshots as we have the DVDs  

I love them... they are not identical to the books, but Hickson is so very very perfect that they are my preferred Marples of all time. 

(I am quite fond of Julia McKenzie, but not so fond of the way those ones are re-written- but the Geraldine McEwan ones should not be permitted. Not only does GMcE play Marple as a bitchy vicious cat who enjoys hurting people with really nasty gossip, but we really don't need to know about her sex life, and above all you do NOT change the identity of the murderer in an Agatha Christie!!!! 
Margaret Rutherford's b&w old ones are almost completely unrelated to the books but are rattlingly good fun and apparently AC enjoyed them too ) 

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

PipneyJane said:

MrsCD said:

If you download the app for UKTVplay, you can watch the Miss Marple film again, and maybe take a photo. It won't let me do a screenshot.

Done via my iPad.  Sadly @MrsCD, I when I took screenshots, they turned out black.  Very clever computer programming, but very annoying.

I will have to wait until DH is playing games online with his mates, and then try rewatching via the app on the television, photographing the screen.  Could be a couple of weeks before that happens.

- Pip

If you can tell me exactly which shot you would like, I can take screenshots as we have the DVDs  

I love them... they are not identical to the books, but Hickson is so very very perfect that they are my preferred Marples of all time. 

(I am quite fond of Julia McKenzie, but not so fond of the way those ones are re-written- but the Geraldine McEwan ones should not be permitted. Not only does GMcE play Marple as a bitchy vicious cat who enjoys hurting people with really nasty gossip, but we really don't need to know about her sex life, and above all you do NOT change the identity of the murderer in an Agatha Christie!!!! 
Margaret Rutherford's b&w old ones are almost completely unrelated to the books but are rattlingly good fun and apparently AC enjoyed them too ) 

@Laura_Elsewhere, if you could that would be wonderful!  I just wanted to share a shot showing the front of the suit, including the pockets and number of buttons, so that people could see what I was lusting after.  There’s a scene where Lucy walks into the drawing room and is introduced to the remaining members of the family - I think that’s where you get a face-on, full-length shot of her suit.

Totally agree re Hickson, McKenzie and Margaret Rutherford.  The GmcE ones were produced by someone who didn’t understand the world in which Miss Marple grew up, the impact of the 1 million men killed in WW1, the massive “surplus” of women, etc.  I’ve always assumed Miss Marple was a contemporary of Agatha Christie and had lost her beloved on the Western Front.  I have a very vague memory that he is actually mentioned at some point, but I haven’t read many Marple books, so it’s probably something mentioned in one of the films and not true.  I don’t know how much of her backstory is really mentioned, let alone explored.

(IRL, I play Miss Marple in a long running game of Cthulhu currently set in 1930.  My Dr Marple is 34, a graduate of Oxford, and an Egyptologist with a PhD in archeology.  During the Great War, she was a VAD nurse in France.  It’s taken us over a decade to get from 1928 to 1930 in game time.). 

- Pip

2Scratters

Talking of 1950's suits, takes me back to me wearing my mums hand made suit and dresses she made at secondary school. I loved to be different when going out with my friends when I was 19 or so back in the late 70's. Just not got the figure for that style now a days  I do have 2 styles now a days,  one is dresses of the long length sea shanty styles that must have deep pockets and the any pants will do style. 

2 Scratters xx

MrsCD

Yes, Pip, the app on my phone just said screenshots were not allowed!😪 Hopefully you'll be able to get a shot of her somehow.
I agree with your opinion of the various women who have played Miss Marple. I prefer Joan Hickson's version, as she is in my opinion, the one most like the books. I don't like characters to be different on the screen. It's disrespectful to the author.

thriftwizard

Um - warp yarn for a loom? Cotton, 200g cones, x 2 at present but a 3rd (possibly even a 4th) will be needed. Not sure whether there'd be a coupon cost; I'm doing a "weaving New from Old" workshop at the end of the month, so have been practising warping up an old table loom and weaving with rags on that, and DD2 has caught sight of the result & wants to have a go herself, so I've warped up the knitter's loom for her to try it out. I doubt people would have been weaving for fun back in the day, but they might have been for their own clothing & household textiles, if absolutely necessary.

Wraithlady

PipneyJane said:

Laura_Elsewhere said:

I love them... they are not identical to the books, but Hickson is so very very perfect that they are my preferred Marples of all time. 

(I am quite fond of Julia McKenzie, but not so fond of the way those ones are re-written- but the Geraldine McEwan ones should not be permitted. Not only does GMcE play Marple as a bitchy vicious cat who enjoys hurting people with really nasty gossip, but we really don't need to know about her sex life, and above all you do NOT change the identity of the murderer in an Agatha Christie!!!! 

Totally agree re Hickson, McKenzie and Margaret Rutherford.  The GmcE ones were produced by someone who didn’t understand the world in which Miss Marple grew up, the impact of the 1 million men killed in WW1, the massive “surplus” of women, etc.  

Can I third the GMcE verdict? I watched a couple of them but her playing Miss M as nasty was just beyond wrong. Before watching any of them, I have to check who's playing her as I refuse to watch 'that poisonous shrew'. You can tell most of the time anyway,  as it's stuffed with 'names' from the 90's even without checking the listings

CapricornLass

Another vote for Joan Hickson.  She's as believable playing Miss M as a dizzy old duck as much as she is playing her as sharp as a needle sleuth.  I don't bother with GMcE either.  She was totally wrong for the part.  However, I suppose the director was trying to get away as much as possible from Joan Hickson's portrayal, as I don't think they were many years apart in production, were they?