I get thrown out of any stories that describe anyone as 'strawberry blonde' (or 'dirty blonde'!) in any context other than, say, a late twentieth-century fashion magazine article ;-p Perhaps because those epithets were simply not part of my experience growing up; you wouldn't walk along the street and think 'there goes a strawberry-blonde girl', although you might look over a fence and see a strawberry roan mare:
The "sweetheart neckline" is a definite anachronism, which I think comes from looking for the perfect word to define the details of a specific costume sketch, without being familiar enough with English to be aware which bits of dress jargon are appropriate for the era and which (most of them!) are modern innovations. (See also 'messy up-do' used by fanfiction writers to describe a 19th-century hairstyle, apparently unaware that hair was assumed to be put up by default -- well, apart from a brief fashion for cropped hair in women thanks to the French Revolution!)
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Perhaps because those epithets were simply not part of my experience growing up; you wouldn't walk along the street and think 'there goes a strawberry-blonde girl', although you might look over a fence and see a strawberry roan mare:
The "sweetheart neckline" is a definite anachronism, which I think comes from looking for the perfect word to define the details of a specific costume sketch, without being familiar enough with English to be aware which bits of dress jargon are appropriate for the era and which (most of them!) are modern innovations. (See also 'messy up-do' used by fanfiction writers to describe a 19th-century hairstyle, apparently unaware that hair was assumed to be put up by default -- well, apart from a brief fashion for cropped hair in women thanks to the French Revolution!)