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Hopeless romantics and Jane Austen followers now have the once-in-a-lifetime alternative to personal a garment from the BBC’s 1995 “Pleasure and Prejudice” miniseries.
Not simply any garment, however the garment – Colin Firth’s notorious moist shirt from the miniseries’ lake scene.
Kerry Taylor Auctions, a British public sale home, is auctioning off the piece of clothes on Tuesday. The proceeds will go to a charity that helps kids and younger folks have entry to “artistic actions, visible and efficiency arts,” in response to the enterprise.
Different items of Mr. Darcy’s outfit are included within the lot, together with his waistcoat and breeches.
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Jane Austen followers have the possibility to personal Colin Firth’s well-known moist shirt from the 1995 “Pleasure and Prejudice” miniseries. (Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
In keeping with the public sale home’s web site, the Regency-inspired piece options “pleated gathers to sleeve tops, deep collar, buttoned neck opening along with a muslin cravat.”
The opposite items which can be included are Darcy’s fall entrance breeches, a velvet waistcoat and a grey wool tailcoat.
To prime it off, the successful bidder will take dwelling a signed {photograph} of Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.
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The notorious moist shirt as worn by Colin Firth in Pleasure and Prejudice on show on the “Lights Digicam Public sale” photocall at Kerry Taylor Auctions on February 27, 2024 in London, England. (Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Photos)
Within the notorious lake scene, Mr. Darcy has an ungainly encounter with Elizabeth Bennet after swimming in a lake.
“Within the scene Mr Darcy is spied rising from a lake having taken a cooling swim on a scorching summer season’s day,” designer Dinah Collin defined in an announcement on Kerry Taylor Auctions’ web site.
In keeping with Collin, producers needed to keep away from nudity and got here up with the concept of Darcy carrying a white shirt as an alternative.
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Actors Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in character as Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in interval drama Pleasure And Prejudice, circa 1995. (Mark Lawrence/TV Instances through Getty Photos)
“As a result of on display screen male nudity was not permitted… the concept of the ‘moist shirt’ was born. Our method spherical this was for Colin Firth to be filmed ¾ size carrying simply the Irish linen shirt (copied from an vintage authentic) which clung to the physique.”
“The scene brought on one thing of a sensation on the time and reworked Colin Firth from a revered classical actor to one thing of a intercourse image in a single day!”
The lot is predicted to fetch wherever from £7,000 to £10,000. In U.S. {dollars}, the estimate is $8,800 to $12,600.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, seems on the notorious white shirt worn by Colin Firth within the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Pleasure and Prejudice which types a part of the Museum’s present show on Regency underwear throughout a go to to Jane Austen’s Home, on Ap (Picture by Finnbarr Webster-Pool/Getty Photos)
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