17 thoughts on “Gentleman Jack Recap, Part 7

    1. I think it’s a smidge low for the period (more commonly, it’d be at the shoulder point, not on the shoulders), so it looks particularly extreme on her.

  1. Just love the Russian Style toque and Cossack coat. And she can be hot in formal dress. Need to finish the episode and I’m slightly procrastinating due to what I feel will be a heartbreaking ending and wanting to make it last.

    Magistrate Rawson sure tells whopping lies and what is with Marian and her attraction to the lower orders?

    With each episode, I’m more a Team Anne/Ann rather than a Team Anne/Marianne. Marianne is her past and Ann her future. Anne and Ann bring out tenderness and to much more in each other.

    Ann is surrounded by ‘family’ but not a family motivated to see her get better. How different from Anne and Miss Rawson.

    And I liked how unified the Lister Sisters were when Rawson visited.

    1. Marianne is definitely old news. It’s sad tho, she’s made the proper-for-the-era choice & she’s stuck with it & she’s not happy. So she’s picking at Anne & her freedom.

    2. That tall hat and military coat are so dashing, elegant and imposing! I love them!

  2. Point of order on her military styled coat: the style is a military/cavalry Hussar’s Pelisse jacket, favoured by the British military as well as the French (Napoleonic style) at that time (and revised to the present), the fur at neck, front and wrist lines were typical. They often wore a matching cape that was fur trimmed as well.See military uniforms or British Hussar uniform examplars circa the early 1830’s to see where the inspiration was drawn from–and it was a very dashing style to boot! Suranne looks amazing in everything they put on her.

  3. Good to know! In 20th-c. fashion, the style got called “Russian Cossack” generically & prob. after Dr. Zhivago (coming up tomorrow, so prob. on my mind, LOL).

  4. Wow, I’m super impressed Trystan, 10 out of 10 for spotting that fabric! It is the same design as one I used on Emily Bronte in ‘To Walk Invisible’ for a house dress, but that was in a different colour way- pale green & brown. Eugenie’s version is a much more vibrant ochre and rust.
    Not recycled I’m afraid because I gave all of the ‘To Walk Invisible’ costumes to the Bronte Parsonage museum, they are part of their collection now & have been on display there.
    The fabric itself comes from reproduction fabrics in Minnesota-But yep same design- I just really really like it! Eugenie’s arrival dress fabric also came from there. I cast the net wide on the hunt for fabrics. But that’s amazing you recognised it. Who’s to say Emily and Eugenie didn’t shop from the same fabric store in Halifax? In fact Emily taught at a school just down the road from Shibden hall, so she would have heard stories of Anne Lister, If she’d lived longer she might have written about her….
    Thank you! Tom

    1. Tom, thank you for all the wonderful work you did on this show. It’s stunning!

    2. Thank you for commenting! That fabric is just so true to the period, & that’s something the impressed me in ‘To Walk Invisible’ as well (also, now I need to plan a trip back to the Parsonage to see those costumes up close).

  5. So sad that next week is going to be the last episode of this season. I feel like we haven’t had enough time with these characters.

    Want to lobby BBC for behind the scenes reels and outtakes (especially of that hilarious thermometer scene), and extended cuts. Suranne said in one interview they’d cut some of the love scenes :( which is a bit of a shame.

    The costumes are gorgeous, but my gosh the best thing about this series is the two leads. Cannot praise them enough. They should get emmys, baftas and everything else there is out there.

  6. I don’t trust Ann’s relatives as far as I can throw them, Anne definitely needs to rescue her beloved before she is pressured into an undesired match.

  7. I know the show is probably likely to only get two seasons, but I enjoy it so much I wish it was a full series, tbh. I absolutely loved the low cut dress Anne was wearing. The hairpiece was a beautiful flourish. When Anne gets dressed up she goes all out. Next season I definitely want to see Ann back with Anne as well as some of her dalliances and European adventures. And tbh, I’d love to see what Marianna imagines to be more masculine clothing, b/c Anne looks pretty on butch lesbian now, lol. Her clothing right now brings to mind Radclyffe Hall & she was butch, so I’d love see what other creative flourishes could be incorporated into Anne’s dress on the show, particularly if they show her when she’s younger.

  8. I do have to say, I’m not a particular fan of any of the actresses they’ve matched the Anne Lister character up with though. Like they really all just seem to be missing something. Maybe that’s why I’d like to see some of the ladies she has dalliances with in the past. Different and most interesting partners with more chemistry.

  9. I understood miss Walker’s blouse/skirt combo to be a smidge-more-feminine version of Anne Lister’s outfits, to show Lister is on her mind. I think it was indeed a bit early for the period, but I didn’t take it as fashion more as Lister’s influence on her (and her style).

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