AIBU to think less of period dramas that use French braids/plaits?

[mommybunny]

I’m really keen to see Little Women but on the trailer I saw a girl with French plaits and that’s kind of ruined it for me. I remember French plaits becoming a craze in the 80s (1980s!) but as far as I recall they were a new hairstyle then. To me, French plaits in a drama set during the American Civil War belongs in the same anachronistic dump as Mrs Maisel telling her audience that Dr Spock’s message was “you got this”, or the numerous examples of men keeping their hats on indoors.

I’m happy to be proved wrong, and to be shown that French plaits existed before the 1980s, but Wikipedia is no help.

Just because you personally knew of them as trend in the 80s doesn’t mean that’s when they were invented. Your experience isn’t universal.

Um, op, by Dr Spock, you're not thinking she's making a Star Trek reference are you

I wondered the same @muffythevampirelayer

Um, op, by Dr Spock, you're not thinking she's making a Star Trek reference are you
😂😂😂

It’s the ra-ra skirts and the bottles of Alpine pop that I’m finding offputting.

@jamievardy - I learnt on my Barbie dolls! It's proved a pretty useful skill as I've been on a psych ward and the women love having their hair french plaited (it keeps it neat even if you're not doing too good with your self care!)

Ancient Greek sculptures- but earlier than Bo Derek.

“You do know most TV and film MUAs spend a lot of time looking at historic pictured etc to get the hair and make up right?”

Well the make up and general grooming in LW is very contemporary. And at one point we get a clear view of the actresses pieced earlobe. Beth, I think,

The whole film is very tedious, so whatever the state of women’s hair at the time, YANBU.

I remember conkers becoming a craze in my primary school when I was 9 years old in 1983 having previously been simply not a thing we knew about. so obviously anything set in the 50s or 60s that depicts kids playing conkers must be unrealistic as they only became a thing in 1983.

It’s the ra-ra skirts and the bottles of Alpine pop that I’m finding offputting

But that scene is straight from the little-known sequel, Good Wives Go on the Pull.

And at one point we get a clear view of the actresses pieced earlobe. Beth, I think,

I hope you're joking on this one (I guess you are really). Humans have been piercing ears (and other body parts) for millennia.