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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The “pretty” sister in the Firth version really isn’t pretty. [/quote]

She's pretty for 1813![/quote]

It’s distracting having Jane not be beautiful since everyone is always commenting on her beauty. [/quote]

The actor playing Jane would indeed have been considered beautiful at that time. Here is a picture of her contemporary, Louise of Prussia, who was said to be the most beautiful woman in Europe.

[img]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz#/media/File%3AGrassi%2C_Josef_Mathias_-_Luise_von_Mecklenburg-Strelitz.jpg[/img][/quote]

I also really appreciated this about the 1995 version. They found actresses who really held to the beauty standards of the time in a way most of the productions don’t bother with doing.  [/quote]

I disagree.

They were a lot heavier than women of the time, and they were also much older looking than the actual characters in the book.[/quote]

Seek professional help. No one looked like KK at the time. She looked skeletal and bedraggled.

You have body dysmorphia. Get help.[/quote]

The average height of women from that era was 5'3" and the [i]average[/i] weight was 112 pounds...[/quote]

So shorter/plumper than KK. 
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That average includes old women, women who have had children, and post menopausal women, which all bring averages up.

This means the young women were mostly all built like Kiera Knightly, but more petite.

Many, many garments remain from that era.

Young women during Jane Austen's time were very petite and very waif like.

If you don't believe me, go look at museum garments from that era.

The women were tiny.

Kiera Knightly would have been bigger than average due to her height, but would have had a similar body type to nearly all of the teen and early 20s women of that era.  Her body type is much more historicslly accurate than the 1995 actresses.

The 1995 women were not historically accurate due to their size.  If you had them try on museum pieces from that era, not one of them could wear any, except possibly the girl who played Mary.

Those women who played the sisters are beautiful, fit, healthy and thin by our modern standards, but they don't represent the body type of that era.  [/quote]

There isn't a meaningful difference between 1995 and 2005.

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None of them would fit into museum garments.
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