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and daphne was a goddess, all the actors/actresses were gorgeous

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cgi worsened perfect but the rest was

@@elise6970 yeah but it’s fiction not a documentary or smth

Who honestly cares!!!

Yeah

fiction never is but a great show

I mean it wasn't meant to be accurate, thats what really annoys me about bridgerton costume reviews

Maroon 5 in violin🙄

Same lol I didnt check the time stamps until i felt like i was watching a movie

I watched this show 5 times

Same !!

@@orangehoney2363 I'm on my 4th time 😅

In a day for me 😅

EXACTLY!

When they were wearing black I was like wtf

The costumes didn’t bother me but the hair did quite often.

@@lizzardgirl100 The fake bangs and the wigs AHHHHHHH

They clearly weren't going for historical accuracy, so that part definitely didn't bother me. I *was* seriously annoyed by color choices, textile choices, and fit, though. Our main characters are in fairly drab colors that make them blend into the background of lots of shots - sure, highlighting the Featheringtons as garish is one thing, but there's a middle ground between ostentatious like poor Penelope and completely invisible like an extra and a lot of times they didn't hit it, especially with Daphne. A lot of the textiles just look cheap, and that *really* took me out of the story because nearly every character we're following is wealthy. And the fit, AAAGGGH the fit! Empire waists hitting in the middle of busts! Are these people having their clothing custom-made and tailored to their own bodies or not? Just....AAAGGHH!

I think they will just make new dresses the second season. I want a dress!

most likely they will become part of a travelling fashion exhibit such as Downton Abbey or Game of Thrones.

I'm curious where do the dresses go when the show is done because I really want one 😆

@@yleilaf.a7967 they probably will sell them to costume warehouses for other films to reuse or repurpose. Or they will repurpose it for other Netflix shows

I’m just happy that that means people in the costuming industry are getting jobs!

Exactly!!!

acts as a bustier I believe?

siapa aku? but you don’t need to pull the laces around the waist and ribcage for that. You are correct that they wore something resembling a bustier, but that whole ass tight corset they showed was completely unnecessary. In other seems it looked like they wore a more realistic looking garment

The point was to show the character of the mother. Pretty much.

Cause they gotta show off the top deck

I was looking for this too. Regency with a twist doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a good thing but this show was more fantasy then realism so it works ig.

Bonnets cover the face and can be a nightmare for lighting and shooting the actor's face. That's why shows and movies prefer to avoid them. I remember the costume designer and director of Handmaid's Tale talking about how difficult it is to shoot with the bonnets but they have to since they are important to the story.

@@Tracydot3 yeah but other productions have shown how you can easily keep a clear face and a bonnet, like The Young Victoria with their sheer bonnets or last year's Emma with their high and wide bonnets that sat back from the face, the wings on Handmaid's Tale are supposed to be claustrophobic and restrictive, it's a requirement of the setting, it's a totally different thing to a fashionable bonnet. It's like the difference between say, a hat and a muzzle.

@@Tracydot3 I would say a really great example of bonnet use is little women (the 90s version obviously) or definetly Emma 2020 which is the best example of any regency costuming this far.

@@Tracydot3 That's just a bad excuse. It's not the real reason, Hollywood just don't find bonnets sexy. Several film and tv shows have been able to shoot actors with bonnets. Stop with this excuse.

Same!! It was such an emotional rollercoaster 😍 not sure the twist in the end about Lady Whistletown is logical, but I knew it would be that character hah

@@alex_bee What do you mean about not being sure if the twist at the end was logical? The same character was lady W in the books as well but we have the luxury now of being able to see how the character became lady W in future seasons. We didn't have that luxury in the books because we found out who it is later on and it was never fully explained but I'm certain they will focus on this aspect in the tv show

@@pat12302 oh OH really? Well I think I’m an uneducated swine who had an idea that this TV show was based on a book slip through my mind completely 😅 so as I understood, it’s as ambiguous in the books too. Hopefully they’ll make Lady W’s character more complete and give an explanation as to how it was who it was in the next season(s) oof!!

@@alex_bee Nooo you're not, many ppl actually don't know that bridgerton is based on books! No one knows who lady W until the character's book. Personally I think that show creators decided to reveal it now because it's very easy to find out who lady W is so revealing it like this actually shocked many viewers. Also we can see how the character became lady W and we will understand better why she did certain things. So I'm sure it's gonna be fun in future seasons. Also season 2 is gonna be amazing, it's about many readers' fav couple so I cannot wait as well!

@@pat12302 more people should know more about the book!! I guess it’s just a part of the burden of living in 21st century. Still appreciated their twist, all of the actors’ acting is amazing!! So hopefully we’ll get season 2 sooner than anticipated & it’ll explain everything :))

If you don't want to be inundated with complaints about historical accuracy with regards to the costume, don't make it a point to repeatedly market it as a drama set in the Regency period And people are rightly annoyed because period dramas like this one always get the costumes wrong and spread false ideas about corsets

@@may.k_me it’s marketed as a reimagined regency drama. The costumes have also been reimagined. And anyone is capable of doing their own research or watching Banner or Karolina.

While there are a few people who harp on about historical accuracy, I think most people were irritated about how the style choices weren’t accurate to the characters or the universe itself. In no version of fantasy regency does the waistline cut across the breasts in such an unflattering way. The trips to the dressmaker are a core part of the story, so it’s immersion breaking for the dresses to not fit. And if they’re all hand made, why does each character have 50 dresses? I feel like we should have been seeing the same three or four dresses on rotation throughout. The designers then could have focused on a small amount of high quality dresses for lead characters, and they could have been made in more expensive natural fabrics that would look and feel flattering. Every choice in TV and film should be intentional. If they’re deviating from historical accuracy to create a fantasy, the creative liberties they take have to actually make sense with that objective. Instead they kinda made everyone look way cheaper and nastier than, say, in Emma (2020) where we saw only a few gowns but each one was *beautiful*.

I’m in the middle of watching it again. I’m going to savory the experience this time.

Same I love Sci-fi and horror though I binged it in 2 days.

Fr and I want it to be about Daphne and Simon not by the book

Bro! 😭

Anna Oof you say that just because you haven't read the book. The second book tells the story of Anthony and Kate and in my opinion is way better than Daphne's story...

@@silviacenteno4866 frrr, straying away from the books has NEVER worked out for any tv adaptation show

Amen 🙏

Exactly most people have no idea and alot of costume designers ignore historical accuracy for a joke or to perpetuate pop culture inaccuracies erg

The lack of chemises was more off-putting than the incorrect terminology.

Yes and most importantly stays can’t be tight laced like the scenes, not to mention as waists weren’t visible in the silhouette, no one would be bothered to. Perpetuating poor stereotypes.

The costume designer clearly said "interpretation of the XVIII silhouette", which means is not meant to be accurate (just like the show itself).

But on the other hand if a movie/ show/ book which clearly is fiction or has a tad bit of real history in it and on further notice you’re accepting these as a source of credibility you’ve lost all control in your life. And furthermore I don’t understand why we, the viewership has always has to be _this_ nitpicky

same

Same!!!

Basically came here just to see if they knew about their "mistakes" principally the corsets one

I think Netflix either assumes that the audience of these RU-vid videos doesn't also watch CosTube, or the Netflix makers of these videos don't watch CosTube--which is somehow worse...

Posted this on another comment, but here’s why I think the tightlacing scene works: . . .the tightlacing scene adds a LOT to the series. It's the perfect way to set up the world in a super short scene. It gives SO much information about what Lady Featherington is like (a bit clueless about the fashion of the day), what the show will be like (it's gonna mess with your historical Regency drama sensibilities), what the world is like. The entire show is a commentary on how modern people view the oppression of women in the Regency era, (among other things), and thus I think it's a brilliant visual metaphor for Bridgerton itself. The tightlacing trope in cinema is a shorthand for "women's oppression", and the audience is used to that. I don't necessarily think it's an accurate or good trope, buuuut it's what the average cinemagoer understands these days. I think Bridgerton does a good job of utilising it and subverting it (by taking stays that couldn't even be tight-laced and making it tightlaced they stretch the trope to the point of ridiculous to make the points I mentioned above).

@@lyndabethcave3835 your theory is clever as hell, but I'd have to guess that the average romance-novel-turned-Netflix-series viewer doesn't actually know or care enough about historical fashion for it to even occur to them that tightlacing would be completely pointless during an era of empire waists. So, to me, it just ends up feeling like I'm watching a mistake happening. The tightlacing still isn't remotely as bad as the fit of the clothing, though - I don't know who thought it would work to show us wealthy people in bespoke, tailor-made dresses with waistlines that literally cut mid-boob.

THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS. You literally made my day lol.

WE WANT CHEMISES !!

Yes, and if Regency stays don't feel good, they don't fit!!

Love that movie. An actual masterpiece. One of the best period costuming in the past few years.

The costume was brilliant, but the writing and directing are such a disappointment. I was hoping for a more feminist view for such a feminist novel but alas all the director cared about was the aesthetics.

Do you really? Why?

​@@wndrss99 Well, it's important to have a layer under a corset or stays when wearing them because they protect the skin form friction and rash (you can see it somewhere in the show that Daphne's actress has irritated spots on her back). It also protects the corsets themselves from sweat and oils from the body which is handy since they are hard to wash. I guess you could compare it to wearing no socks in your shoes and they going on a hike, not very fun. It was probably done to show more skin and a lot of series and movies do this but it would stil be nice to see the right undergarments. They can be just as appealing. (bit of a long response, i just really like this topic :3)

Maybe in season 2 😉 Also I Cannot with the bangs who thought of that?

Exactly! I also don't understand why they had the cast wear corsets under rectangular-shaped dresses that were not supposed to accentuate the figure.

@@sophieellen8147 I mean, stays are also meant for bust support, so that part’s accurate, they just definitely didn’t need to be so tight. I’m really upset haha

Amen.

@@loudevanneaux661 I think it showed that mom doing it because she didn’t want her daughters looking fat. Also maybe for posture. Daphne

Why try to make your waist tiny if it aint gonna show? WHY???

@@jellybean1528 I guess it's a metaphor for uptight. I thought the same thing but the show is not meant to be historically accurate anyways.

in a historical perspective, yes that was unnecessary because the 1810s are in similar ways to the 1920s wherein corsetry/stays aren't as rigid compared to the 18th century and the Victorian Era.

@@georgiebennett3336 No. just...no. There weren't any corsets until the early Victorian era. Stays do not have the same structure as a corset. Even then, you had to wear a chemise underneath the stays in order to protect your skin, same with the corset. There is also a fact that a stay cannot be tight lace like a victorian corset. Stays and corsets are like bra, but you wouldn't know what a bra feels like because you're a man and you don't have to worry about your chest drooping and bouncing whenever you're walking about. Just as long as they fit the body, historical ladies don't complain about it.

I think the tightlacing scene adds a LOT to the series. It's the perfect way to set up the world in a super short scene. It gives SO much information about what Lady Featherington is like (a bit clueless about the fashion of the day), what the show will be like (it's gonna mess with your historical Regency drama sensibilities), what the world is like. The entire show is a commentary on how modern people view the oppression of women in the Regency era, (among other things), and thus I think it's a brilliant visual metaphor for Bridgerton itself. The tightlacing trope in cinema is a shorthand for "women's oppression", and the audience is used to that. I don't necessarily think it's an accurate or good trope, buuuut it's what the average cinemagoer understands these days. I think Bridgerton does a good job of utilising it and subverting it (by taking stays that couldn't even be tight-laced and making it tightlaced they stretch the trope to the point of ridiculous to make the points I mentioned above).

Interestingly for the year 1813, her look would've been outdated among younger generation. Well, I guess having her fashion not updated makes sense since she's an older woman and older people typically stick to their own era's fashion trends and taste

@@georgiebennett3336 Yes, look at the Dowager Countess from Downton Abbey.. she dressed like it was 1885

YES! I am not the only one that walked away wondering what happened to the necklace.... 😏 😉 😂

I think when Daphne took it off she left it ..on the wall next to her... Someone must have found it! But whom.....?..to be continued...lol

@@TheBarboi I was thinking it was the blonde girl who was mad Daphne took the prince but then they never brought it up again lol

@@ashleylynnfotos ohhh yeah... She stole it... She was a sneaky blackmailing treacherous little thing... 😂 I was actually suprised, since it was a piece of royal jewelry, no request was made for it's return... Maybe we'll see that in the deleted scenes on DVD release... 😏

Actually, yeah, she dropped it like it was made of plastic...was it??

lol what, that's a joke right?

@@aspannas for costume design