Oh, Romana definitely shares many traits with Hermione: Frighteningly smart, class nerd ("triple-alpha"? Eeek), disdainful of those they feel aren't their intellectual equals (although both learn to appreciate the other qualities the Doctor or Ron and Harry offer), more naive than the characters they play off of (Hermione comes from a Muggle family and isn't as integrated into the wizard world as Ron is)...Hermione isn't so much the ice queen that Romana can be, though.
My library has TSoE on VHS. *g* I read the Bryson book sometime ago...I remember very little of it, though, so I may have to reread it sometime. Aside from the Romana!Squee, I'm particularly interested in the first segment 'cause of the Anglo-Saxon.
The only things I can do, sewing-wise, are hemming, and sewing buttons on. Oh, I made a pillow once. A very plain one. But I hear dresses tend to be easy to sew...? And I have access to a sewing machine, and I can follow directions pretty well, so as long as bias cut isn't terribly complicated, I should be okay if I choose a simple enough pattern.
I think I'm a bit larger than most vintage dresses (I have dresses in sizes 10-14, but I tend toward the upper end of that spectrum), which are often horribly expensive anyway. I suppose there might be some out there in thrift shops that aren't actually from the thirties, but look like it? If I were after an evening dress, it would be simpler, because most of the styles that are labeled today as "elegant" and "classic" came out of that decade. But I want something that will go with lace-up Oxford-type walking shoes, and also would be something Charley would probably wear to go on a regular sort of adventure with the Doctor, a la Rose's blue jeans and T-shirts.
And yeah, it's nice not to be trying to match something I've seen on TV. :)
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Date: 2006-07-23 08:24 pm (UTC)My library has TSoE on VHS. *g* I read the Bryson book sometime ago...I remember very little of it, though, so I may have to reread it sometime. Aside from the Romana!Squee, I'm particularly interested in the first segment 'cause of the Anglo-Saxon.
The only things I can do, sewing-wise, are hemming, and sewing buttons on. Oh, I made a pillow once. A very plain one. But I hear dresses tend to be easy to sew...? And I have access to a sewing machine, and I can follow directions pretty well, so as long as bias cut isn't terribly complicated, I should be okay if I choose a simple enough pattern.
I think I'm a bit larger than most vintage dresses (I have dresses in sizes 10-14, but I tend toward the upper end of that spectrum), which are often horribly expensive anyway. I suppose there might be some out there in thrift shops that aren't actually from the thirties, but look like it? If I were after an evening dress, it would be simpler, because most of the styles that are labeled today as "elegant" and "classic" came out of that decade. But I want something that will go with lace-up Oxford-type walking shoes, and also would be something Charley would probably wear to go on a regular sort of adventure with the Doctor, a la Rose's blue jeans and T-shirts.
And yeah, it's nice not to be trying to match something I've seen on TV. :)