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Or it would be just the wrong shade of red and clash horribly with the carpet. Sandhya may be different when the cameras aren't rolling, but I'd take anything Hernan said about anyone or anything with a whole salt mine. She's 24? I thought she was way older than that. From looking at the rate the runway pics, I think Amanda's dress would have been better if she had done a flowy sort of skirt (with no beading) with the beaded top. Maybe something in the colors of the beads and sequins. And Alexander's (that is his name, right? not Andrew?) dress made the model look shapeless. It had no waistline. I always wonder if the models are the same size as Heidi or if the designers (or someone else) has to do an entirely new dress (with more time) of the same style for Heidi to make it fit right. Sometimes the dress can be resized, but some of them just can't because of the style or because Heidi is bigger than the model. (Surely some of the models must be smaller than her, although she probably wouldn't admit it.

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. (If you don't have a small child, it's the same tune as Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and some of the same words. I'm not saying it's a bad song. It just sticks in your head all freaking day long.)

I think that was Emily, and I think she was mad after the fact because Sandhya was asking if she needed something, and she was about to say yes when Tim said no if you're not going, you get nothing. She was going to get new stuff and be able to keep sewing.

I thought the top of Amanda's dress wasn't bad, but the beaded panel down the skirt really weighed the whole thing down. It looked heavy and uncomfortable. I thought Sandhya's dress belonged in the top 3 above Amanda's dress. Sure the fabric was doing most of the work, but it was still much better looking than Amanda's. I think Sean's dress won in part because it was going to photograph much better than Kini's dress -- or any of the others -- because it had movement. It was maybe Zac who said something to that effect, and I think that's one reason Heidi picked it. That and the bright, attention-grabbing color. I thought Tim told them if they weren't going to Mood, they couldn't keep the $100 but could give their money to someone who was going. The fabric was great, but I think even with that fabric, Korina and Mitchell would have failed. And they would have ruined some very, very expensive fabric.

I'll see all of you and raise you a toddler. Do you know the muffin man? Sure wish I didn't.

That's a good question. I'm guessing 40 minutes isn't that far because of the size of the city, but when you come from a less populated area, it doesn't give you a sense of how far it is. Forty minutes for me is at least two towns away (with just highway in between, not built-up suburbs). It would be easier if they would give it in miles (and kilometers, I suppose).

867-5309.

Macarthur Park: Someone left the cake out in the rain, I don't think that I can take it, 'Cause it took so long to bake it, And I'll never have that recipe again. I really thought Mitchell's suit was much worse. At least Hernan's looked like it was bought in a store at some point. Mitchell's looked like a homemade double knit polyester suit. I couldn't believe Hernan thought he could get away with saying the fabric was disintegrating. Even if the judges didn't get a closer look, it was double knit polyester. That does not disintegrate.

She might still be there as long as she didn't go back. If she went back, then her life would be different, but as long as she was still mid-time travel, she could know about both universes. It depends on how this particular time travel universe works. (Yes, I read too many time travel books. That's why I first started this series.)

I loved Mother Hildegarde.

Thanks, Glaze Crazy. I'm against them, then, not that I've seen anything they've done. I'm just against them on principle. Also, I think Bree smiles every now and then, and my understanding is that what's-her-name who played Bella doesn't.

Yeah, but you know, the cover's falling off, so it's probably time for a new copy.

I'm guessing I should know who those people are, but I don't (the people in the photos, not Bree and Roger -- I know who Bree and Roger are).

Is Percival's name really Beauchamp? I've been wondering if Fergus' long-lost relatives (if they really are) are Beauchamps, and if so, if they are Claire's ancestors -- and if Fergus is one of her ancestors, if he actually went to France and became part of the family, or took back the title or whatever (assuming he survives the French Revolution).

The good thing about that is that if they do, Jamie, Roger and Brianna (because she might actually be the one to shoot them) can take care of them without worrying about the law. Thank goodness I finally finished the book and can come into this thread.

I don't remember, but I remember reading an interview (or a blog post possibly) with Diana Gabaldon in which she said that was a mistake on her part. That's why the dates are different in subsequent print runs and also don't line up quite right with the next book.

Was this the season where the see-through shirt was deemed dowdy and old-ladyish (or something like that)?

I would never buy a house with all the bedrooms in the basement. We had a basement with the guest bedroom in it and slept in it when my parents came to visit because my dad couldn't go down the stairs. I couldn't sleep for feeling the entire house over me. Of course, I'm always surprised when people ask for or the designers give them a house with the master bedroom in a completely separate part of the house from the kids' bedrooms. I always wonder about when their kids are sick or when they're little, wouldn't you want to be closer to them to hear them? And when they're teenagers, wouldn't you want to be closer to know they're not sneaking in or out?

The minor detail that got me was that it was still 1945 (switched to 1946 in later printings, I think), and from the way Claire talked, rationing was over, which it definitely was not. But I was reading a book with time travel. Quibbling about when rationing was over in a book with time travel was just too much like when my husband went with me to see "Kate and Leopold" (under pressure) and muttered the whole time about how that wasn't how time travel worked. I do think Diana Gabaldon knows how to do research, considering that she's earned a bachelor's degree in zoology, a master's degree in marine biology and a doctorate in quantitative behavioral ecology, was a professor for 12 years and wrote scientific articles and textbooks. But it was her first novel, written entirely from research at a distance without going to England or Scotland and, at the time, not written for publication but for practice. I'm inclined to forgive a few factual errors in service of the bigger picture.

You can find it on the Starz Outlander page at the bottom under Extras. It's called Chat with Ron Moore.

If she had hose (or stockings), she probably wouldn't have many pairs and might not put them on just for walking out to the stones because they'd probably get torn up. World War II had just ended, and while rationing in England might not have still been on, it was probably still difficult and expensive to have a lot of pairs of stockings. You'd want to take care of them.

The small kilt was in use at the time of the novels. He didn't have to be wearing a great kilt.

Regardless of what people would have thought of her in the 1940s, I don't think anyone would have thought anything bad about Claire not wearing panties in the 1700s since they probably weren't either.

While I thought the length of the skirt in Angela's suit was too short for me, I didn't think it was as short as the skirts Ally McBeal wore (which everyone called unrealistic then -- and they were). I've seen women wearing skirts that short, sometimes to the office, but not in a suit and definitely not with hose and pumps (usually some form of flip-flops) because they were younger women. Mind you, I thought they were inappropriately dressed for work, but then, I'm old.

I agree, but I also think the designers have to try to think like the judges (which seems to be an impossibility since they seem to judge on a whim not on any consistent thought process). And the judges would probably think the world will be ending in 20-30 years, and fashion will have changed drastically. We'll be living on the moon, etc. I think they think fashion changes as quickly as technology, when the truth is there's only so much you can do with clothes, and big differences take a long time and usually involve influences from previously unknown cultures, which are difficult to come by these days.