We interrupt our Pride & Prejudice Advent Calendar #BTPPAdventCalendar coverage to remind you that if you like these threads, and Regency fashion, you might like the books over at @austendress.bsky.social. They taught us everything we know. There's a third one coming next year!

It's back!: THE BILL AND TED TEST ADVENT CALENDAR. One post a day on the BBC 1995 Pride and Prejudice until 25th December. The fine print: Going through from start to finish; episodes in order so no skipping ahead to Mr Wet Shirt 1812, thank you. Four posts per episode. #BTPPAdventCalendar

We worked it out. Scuse any ensuing spamming as we transfer over.

Do we know how to transfer all the tweets from the Ex-Bird Cage and give them life here? Sorta kinda maybe. Are we working on it? Time will tell. But at least we finally can back into the old account which wasn't happening for quite some time because the codes got lost.

The post that started it all over at x.com/BillAndTedTest

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!

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!!

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!!

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. independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

Yes, we've seen the Persuasion trailer.

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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IF IT HURTS THAT MUCH IT IS NOT AN 'HISTORICALLY ACCURATE' REGENCY CORSET. Who is making and fitting these? buzzfeed.com/natalieoganesy…

Just so's you know, we're not going to do The Courtship because it's not set in the past.

Huh. There you go! t.co/HJbZSS830W

People are allowed to critique Bridgerton. If you like something, it doesn't mean no one can have conversations about it. Having people of colour in it (yay!) doesn't mean it's uncritiqueable either. ALL cultural productions are up for discussion. It's part of what makes culture

Not posting, waving. Have we posted anything new for a long time? No. Do we plan to? Aw, yeah, probs. Will it be this month? Almost certainly not. But you're still all lovely, so 👋

Interesting! t.co/lAgwddrTDk

Do you know what today is? The 30th November. This means tomorrow is the 1st December. Because we put so much work into it, and are lazy, it's the day we're going to shamelessly rest on our laurels and start retweeting the...... 1995 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE ADVENT CALENDAR!!!!

Just gonna leave this here 🙄

Bill and Ted Test but make it the history of fashion on Barbies. Read up and down; you'll love it. t.co/4V0da6tPax

A dream cast of Pride & Prejudice based on previous adaptations, by a partial, prejudiced (ha!) and knowledgeable historian Lizzy - Gemma Arterton, Lost in Austen Darcy - Laurence Olivier, 1940 (DO NOT @ US!!) Jane - Rosamund Pike, 2005 Mrs Bennet - Alex Kingston, Lost in Austen

Have we already mentioned we do have nascent plans for a second account in this vein, looking at a different period, when and if we can be bothered? We've probably said it once before but it bears repeating now *aaah ah ah ah aaa-aah*

Retweeting that last Holm Napoleon has reminded us we haven't tested his second (and obviously best) portrayal of the emperor: Time Bandits. 'Little things hitting each other. THAT'S WHAT I LIKE!'

A for no particular reason nor order list of our fave screen Regency costumes 1. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 2. Taboo 3. Emma (2020) 4. Peterloo 5. Persuasion (1995) 6. Bright Star 7. Master & Commander

If the sensitivity is to images of actors so overly photoshopped they look like waxworks, then yes, yes it potentially may contain sensitive material. Otherwise - yer wot?? Is Da Firth too hot to handle?

Look! An actual new one! Belgravia (Episode 1, 2020) gets a PASS for being absolutely lovely. Set on the eve of Waterloo, the silhouettes, fabrics, details and hair are all spot on. Truly, it's refreshingly nice work. Cheers everyone!

To reiterate: you can get away with anything in historical costuming if you do it with style, confidence, and knowing the rules before you break them to smithereens. It's the uncanny valley of a vague or underinformed attempt that jars so.

We haven't forgotten about the one off Test of an 18th century film, but life has been hectic and involved lots of Ikea lately, so Allen Key Fatigue is preventing actual watching rn.

Life is happening hard, so your OOP Test is coming, but in a week or so. In the meantime, please enjoy recycled content as we churn over past Tests in a bid to keep audience engagement and algorithmic relevancy. Or something.

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After reading through all your most excellent suggestions for a special OOP Test, here's a shortlist of the ones we liked most, so you can vote for it. This might be listening to our audience; it might be laziness in decision making.

#MyTwitterAnniversary AKA, the day when the effect of lockdown in a rural location made us suddenly think a whole Twitter account based on a very frivolous costuming benchmark described in a throwaway tweet seemed like a good idea. Salut!

Bridgerton (2020) .... ... Nah, gonna make you work for this result in a whole lotta thread. It's taken so long to get around to this Test, may as well draaaawwwww iiiiitttttt ouuuuuuutttttttt

We Aten't Dead. It's just been an incredibly busy and changeful period.

*Bridgerton is in the process of being watched*

Now's as good a time as any to point out that nowhere in the account description does it say the costumes are only Tested on historical accuracy! Design, quality, understanding, and cohesive worldbuilding also count. See: Taboo, Austenland.

24. #BTPPAdventCalendar One, two, three: AWWWWWWWW!! The double wedding takes place before Christmas, aptly enough for our purposes. Once again, we're in morning dress for the fellas, and the ladies with day-length sleeves, though in more luxurious fabrics.

23. #BTPPAdventCalendar After that piping-filled lull, we're back to the action. Nothing says 'action' like Lady Catherine de Bourgh sweeping in. Hurricane Catherine, a whirl of luxury fabrics. Lace, silk velvet, a mink? tippet and really high therefore fashionable bonnet crown

22. #BTPPAdventCalendar It's a quiet period at Longbourn and the girls are about their employment. Mary's doing her music, Kitty is trimming a bonnet (😍), Lizzy and Jane are boy talking with herbs, and later, the table is covered with their handiwork. 🥰 these Austeny details.

21. #BTPPAdventCalendar Into the home straight now... We start with a wedding, and Lydia's peculiar inability to tie her bonnet ribbons. Wedding were conducted in the morning so men and women wore morning dress. Veils were optional, as was white. The Dress wasn't a massive deal

20. #BTPPAdventCalendar Tonight we start with some love for secondary characters. Mrs Phillips is a dedicated follower of fashion and it's fantastic. She must have swooned when the Bingley sisters (FASHUN!) rolled into town. Such clothes, sister! Douze points for that feather.

19. #BTPPAdventCalendar And so, we return to Longbourn and some shots of the gratuitously good costuming of the Gardiner children. Look at her red shoes! LOVE these outfits. So cute, so right.

17. #BTPPAdventCalendar Ruh roh! Something is rotten in the state of Longbourn. However, it's a great excuse for a Bennet nightwear line up. Mr Bennet is ROCKING a knitted nightcap avec tassel, and a nightshirt with a fetching frill. He's nearly dashing.

17. #BTPPAdventCalendar Finally Darcy's favourite gals meet, and do some more clothing reflection, pale blue spencer to pale blue spencer. Georgiana's wardrobe is so pretty - a more expensive version of genteel dress, like Lizzy's, but never overreaching like the Bingley sisters

Phew, we all need a bit of a breather after yesterday's post. Next one coming soon...

16. #BTPPAdventCalendar It's HEEEEE-EEEERRRRRRREEEE!!!!!!! The one, the only, the iconic, the emblematic scene of this and all other Austen adaptations; 'the scene that changed everything', as the BBC called it. And we're gonna deep dive (ha!) into it. gfycat.com/disastrousfara…

15. #BTPPAdventCalendar There's a fair bit of travelling at this point. Lydia is off to Brighton, and after hassling for new clothes, clearly got them. Phwoar! Much fashion, many style. Check out the points on that jacket. Very nice.

Golly, we're over halfway through! Attentive readers will realise what's just around the corner.... 14. #BTPPAdventCalendar Meanwhile, across country in Meryton, Kitty and Lydia are treating everyone to lunch except they have no money, kicking off a run of printed pale frocks.