The Bill and Ted Test

How hard is it to costume a Regency drama better than the extras in the Beethoven scene of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure? PASS/FAIL

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This is @fourredshoes Regency screen costume benchmark: the Beethoven scene from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. If a production's main costumes are less well done than those of the extras in a minor part of a 1980s teen comedy movie, we have a problem.

PASS OR FAIL?

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We have been quiet.
We have had *a year*.

But! We have also written another book full of Regency goodness, another prop for an already very high horse from which to look loftily upon screen productions and Test them. Or something.

Have a good one, costuming compadres!

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Like so: https://t.co/K6IaMrETaT

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OMG! Can you imagine if expert historians, like, took to Twitter to present their knowledge in alternative forms that were also fun and engaging and tapped into things people already enjoy??? Madness!!

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It's time for another of those tweets where we promise really truly that there will be more content at some point, and then probably more months' silence. Let's find out!!

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@Orlandocreature these are all factually correct opinions

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We are duly impressed!!

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@Rygelina She's the best, and they're ruining her

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We had nothing to do with this, honest:

'There’s not even an attempt to be accurate here – [the] costumes only look like Regency dress if you’d somehow been led to believe that the pages of this month’s Tatler magazine had been shot out of a time machine.
https://t.co/iBGh5O1aLZ

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@Altair4_2381 Yep. Smacks of uncanny valley: not quite Regency, not quite modern.

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However, we note in passing that the costume designer for new Persuasion also did the BBC Les Miserables (FAIL), Death Comes To Pemberley (FAIL), and Poldark (surprise PASS for Regency but FAIL on the too-early-to-Test 18th century stuff)

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LOLLZZZZZZZ!

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Answer me this @BillAndTedTest, why is Elizabeth running around outside in her underwear? Barefoot? #AskingForAFriend #PrideandPrejudice

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Yes, we've seen the Persuasion trailer.

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@web_goddess Sorry, it passed. It's right for 1797-8, which is when the film is set, not in 1812.

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@spillwark @thejoanbaufort @SanditonH @kiwimichelle25 @laurab583 ooooh, totally forgot Byzantium was Test period!!

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@barelytolerabIe Persuasion, and Pride and Prejudice, in that order.

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Another month; another memo going round Bill and Ted Towers that truly, this will be the one that we resume posting. And yet, we don't. #twitterennui.

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@MadameGilflurt https://t.co/oAzPAGqiBj

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However, we're also kinda passing it because Napoleon is played by Patrice Chéreau, dearly beloved at Bill and Ted Towers for directing La Reine Margot, and playing General Marquis de Montcalm in the Last of the Mohicans. Like the longer hair too - underrepresented on screen.

[Catherine Curzon @MadameGilflurt]

On the anniversary of his death, your annual reminder that Napoleon gave up politics to become Rod Stewart.

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@incrediblemelk ooooh