Ode to a Brown Cardigan

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Hear me carry on about how much I like a brown and cream cardigan in one of my favourite films, set in the 1930s, and then see where else I found the same cardigan being worn by other people in film and TV.
I really love the stories featured in this video and the costume design I hope it inspires you to watch them either for the first time or revisit them if you have not in a while.
Sorry for the slightly stilted delivery, I had my notes to one side of the camera so it looks a little unnatural, but I did want to get all the film and book information correct.
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
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Easy Virtue by Noel Coward
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All Creatures Great and Small BBC
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@LadyLJOII 4 часа назад

This is why Constance MacKenzie's channel clicks with me. :-) I have seen the movies of I Take The Castle, The Easy Virtue (oh, that dog), and I love both of them. The cardigan got past me, I usually notice those things. I noticed the costumes for the 1970's-80's BBC versions of Jane Austen's P&P, Emma, S&S, Persuasion, etc where they repeated using the costumes, especially the ladies. It caught my eye. And I love the Robert Hardy version of ACG&S. They have a wondrous cast, but Mrs. Hall is my favorite character.

@geraldinefields1730 2 часа назад

I love seeing vintage clothes. Thank you.

@DAYBROK3 Час назад

as a canadian we didnt get to see the vet stories until the early 80s, i vaguely remember reading the take the castle book, i often read my kids books cause i used to be a crazy reader

@annemarieskidmore5194 Час назад

Love this, Constance, miss my aga use to sit in the dog beds with the dogs as we all dried off. ❤

@cadileigh9948 Час назад

OOh 2 in one week !. Thank you don't watch Films but will look for the 2nd book/play. First fell in love with I capture the Castle as a teenager and was lucky, after school and before art school ,to work as village librarian in a castle gatehouse with moat and swans nest under the window slot and a crumbley Elizabethan house within the walls but far from SE England. Wanted tea dresses like Topaz loaned to Rose and eventually got a couple for 10p each when Oxfam shops first happened and old ladies donated. Am about to start knitting a sensible soft thick Norwegian wool I bought for £2 again in Oxfam 50+ years later. A cardigan to replace my winter fuel allowance.

@ladyedith Час назад

Love this! There are a couple of pieces I've seen re-used in other productions. Both starting in Dr Who. Sarah Janes 'holiday' dress seen at the end of Seeds of Doom ( the red polka dot number) is also worn by Betty in the episode of Some Mothers Do Have 'em with the car half way off the cliff. Also Sarah Janes 'Andy Pandy' dungarees aooear on Carol in the Liver Birds - though I don't think it's the same dungarees as SJ's had stars embroidered on the chest pocket and I seem to remember Carols didn't.

@mjdc2533 5 часов назад

Thank you.

@kjtherrick4031 Час назад

Thank you for this very interesting recap of these books and their movies or telecasts. It's fantastic that the same sweater has been used in several productions for more than 40 years. Of course, now I will absolutely be keeping an eye out for recycled costumes! I'm fairly sure that some of my favorite costumes in various Hollywood productions of old were nevery reused, which frankly, is quite sad because many were gorgeous and deserved more of a life on film or in the real world.

@katewill7302 4 часа назад

Bravo! I love everything about this video. Everything!!! Well done!! Subject, filming, location… looking for a stool to sit on while I have a cocktail in the kitchen, might also need an aga… the intertwining about multiple subjects in a clear way… Bravo!!

@bdoll1012 3 часа назад

Lovely video, you have a great eye for detail, that was interesting and we can all wonder about the history about the Brown Cardigan! Thank you!

@TMIvey-gk4mw 7 часов назад

What a sharp eye you have! I actually apply the same principles when thrifting at my local Goodwill store. If I see a piece of clothing that matches one that I already own, regardless of size, I will buy it in hopes of making it into something else that can coordinate with the original item, or have it as mending fabric in the event the original garment gets damaged, or to alter the original garment using the found piece as extra fabric. Fourth option if it is one size up or down from the original can be a back up in the event of weight fluctuations.

@stanceymackenzie 7 часов назад

Excellent plan my Mother does this with when she finds repeat garments in charity shops, I am more likely to buy something that I feel I can use the fabric to make it into something more me.

@michelemilne9612 3 часа назад

I love the scene where Topaz dyes all their clothes green 💚

@lynneeie5226 5 часов назад

Wonderful intro!! With me, it would be a grey cardigan & I am not among the hawk eyed, sadly! My husband, the farmer, is quick to notice a sudden change of season & back again, or the tracks made by tractors in the fields of a “medieval” wheatfield… makes me laugh, because I don’t notice at all!

@stanceymackenzie 5 часов назад

Thank you, I do notice the farming stuff too although not as much as my partner, I make this part of the fun of watching rather than considering spoiling it. Although I am sure other people watching it might be less inclined to think so. So is it a particular Grey Cardigan you like?

@pheart2381 7 часов назад

I haven't noticed a repeat garment appearance,but I have noticed a clam-shaped sewing basket in 2 or more productions. My favourite costume series at the moment is the Flambards series,which aired in the 80s and is now on RU-vid. The shoes..the coats...the hats...I want them all!! Another recent discovery is Maelstrom,set in Norway before designer labels became the absolute fetish they sadly are now.

@stanceymackenzie 7 часов назад

Oh that is really eagle eyed spotting well done, I don't know the Flambards when is it set or is it contemporary to the 80s? I am watching a 1960s series at the moment and the fashions of the 60s so none of the clothing really does anything for me on the men or women so I just watch the cars which are also a bit modern for me but I am still enjoying it.

@pheart2381 7 часов назад

@@stanceymackenzie Flambards is set in the Edwardian era mainly. I think the reason I like the clothes in the series is because they are their ordinary everyday outfits for the most part. They are not trying to impress anybody,but the tailoring and fabrics are lovely. Her jacket at the train station 😍😍😍

@stanceymackenzie 7 часов назад

That does indeed sound like a good series to watch.

@annacatherinesendgikoski1965 8 часов назад

A cardigan, brown and cream, I can't imagine you waxing lyrical about anything else, my friend! A new series is in order, Constance from the Kitchen Floor or How I keep warm next to the Aga!

@stanceymackenzie 8 часов назад

I am sitting in a tin bath which is a reference to a key scene in I Capture the Castle, but you can't really see it as my skirt covers it up

@annacatherinesendgikoski1965 8 часов назад

@stanceymackenzie I knew it must be referencing something! Also, the...martini! LOL

@stanceymackenzie 7 часов назад

Who doesn't have a martini in the bath?

@annacatherinesendgikoski1965 7 часов назад

@@stanceymackenzie I'm slipping then! I can honestly say that at 60, I apparently have yet to live! 🤣

@stanceymackenzie 7 часов назад

In my days of drinking it was actually more likely to be a beer but nowadays it's going to be a cup of tea.

@SaoirseGraves 5 часов назад

There is a dusty pink pelisse that makes an appearance in several regency era films (though I didn't see it on the recycled movie costume pages!) ... Aunt Gardiner is wearing it in the 1995 P&P when she and Uncle Gardiner set to 'walk in the direction of the church'. I'm fairly certain the same one shows up on Louisa in the 1995 Persuasion... and I'm sure I've seen it at least in one other film though I can't remember which at the moment. I love the colour of it though personally would dislike most regency on myself (and I would also dislike the likelihood that it would cause people to ask if I've seen Bridgeton - I haven't) *and* my ego would have me believe I'm a bit too 'goth' for a long pink pelisse 🤣👻😅 I love the nerdery and attention to detail in this video!!!

@stanceymackenzie 5 часов назад

Hello, thank you so much for your answer, I am glad my nerdiness has a small audience. I have just found myself googling Aunt Gardiner 1995, I think I have found it and next time I watch the Amanda Root Persuasion (My Favourite) I will keep an eye out for it. I do have a reasonable amount of pin regency clothing but I have not watched Bridgerton ether, I am delighted that other people enjoy it and have fun with the costumes but its not really for me( although I have read a huge amount of regency romance novels that it developed from so I have definitely indulged in that world.)

@SaoirseGraves 3 часа назад

@@stanceymackenzie 😁🤎 That Persuasion is also my favourite! The clothes look so lived in for a start! EDIT - Ah! Just remembered, I think the pelisse in Persuasion may be a different one but the other place I have seen it is on Charlotte in the 80s P&P (which I also love but for more personal pedantic reasons.)

@alibabafurball 6 часов назад

I really try to be delusional and say to myself ...no this can't be the same as the other film lol.

@stanceymackenzie 5 часов назад

Is this because you do not want to break the magic of it being a story in isolation? As I work in the film industry I have already broken all the spells and get great pleasure in looking out for costumes, locations and cars that are used over and over again.

@alibabafurball 3 часа назад

@@stanceymackenzie you got it, even the fabric in the 12th century play can't be the same in the 18th century play lol. I love to immerse myself in the magic of the illusion on the screen. Somewhat like how people look at a painting and know it isn't real, but a depiction of reality. Some paint very well like davinci in almost a 3d appearance when you see it to other that are not so good. It is the not so good that you have to get more delusional about what you are looking at lol.