shredsandpatches:lewdhat:historicaldress:uacboo:Source and to read: thereel.scroll.in/835384
shredsandpatches:lewdhat:historicaldress:uacboo:Source and to read: https://thereel.scroll.in/835384/how-you-look-at-costumes-in-tv-period-dramas-depends-on-whether-youre-a-pedant-or-a-swoonerVery interesting commentary about costume design in period dramas.I’ve decided I’m both. I can point out inaccuracies but still say, “But it’s pretttty.”It’s kind of odd that they chose to compare two series set in such different time periods, though, especially since one of them is set in the 20th century. There are people alive today who remember the 1950s, and many surviving examples of both actual garments and photographs, and that generally raises the standard for accuracy rather higher than stuff set further back where there’s a little less certainty – the line seems to be somewhere around the Regency, as far as I can tell. Plus with earlier settings you run up against modern attitudes about the period and what looks good. Stuff set in the Renaissance tends to take outrageous liberties with costume accuracy, whereas stuff set in the Middle Ages is often not fantastical ENOUGH, to the point where the BBC didn’t want the cast of the White Queen wearing tights, and Tom Hiddleston spent most of the Hollow Crown just wearing basically modern clothes. -- source link