Fashion Expert Fact Checks Elsa and Anna's Costumes from "Frozen" | Glamour 

When she's saying "strømper", "skjorta" and "väska" it sounds like she's saying professional terms, but she's just saying "socks", "shirt" and "bag" in norwegian xD

Frozen actually took place during summer not winter

Them: *fact checking fashion* Kids currently: * fact checking how Olaf is 5’4 so Kristoff would be over 11 ft, and all the characters are giants*

I’m not...mad at this chick? Like, she’s just saying ‘hey, if this was real life and this was the real 1840’s, this is what they would wear’ I don’t think she’s saying “This is so wrong omg this isn’t accurate oh my goshhh they’re so baddd” like??? This is just a fashion history lesson that uses modern culture. I assume they know this is for fun, I doubt they’re dragging a kids movie for having pink and purple. I don’t know man, I think you guys are being a big over the top about this chick doing her job.

What’s fun is if you look at the Broadway musical, the costumes have much greater historical accuracy.

She wore long sleeves cause she was very conservative and didnt wanna have skin exposed that might create ice

I love how the coronation gown is literally covered in crowns XD

When we talk about Elsa we have to keep in mind that she refused any kind of physical touch and was afraid her powers would leak through her body, hence the long sleeves and gloves. And I think that Disney didn't thought of any historical accuracy when they created a kingdom in a probably alternative timeline.

I don't think the costume designers were particularly concerned with historical accuracy

THANK YOU FOR ACTUALLY HIRING A FASHION HISTORIAN. SHES GREAT. now, redo all of your inaccurate 100 years of x, y, and z videos with her qualified knowledge. thnxx glamour

"even seeing an ankle would be very scandalous fo this time period" * proceeds to show many period pictures of women wearing calf lenght skirts *

Just FYI, the lady refers to the animators doing a good design job but it's actually the visual development artists, the character designers and the art directors that take care of the design part. Animators animate : )

So... as an actual Norwegian, who owns a bunad, I was a bit thrown by all the past tense: Bunads are still made today, worn for special occasions (it falls under «good enough attire to attend a Royal party in»), and the words for things on the bunad are not archaic and no longer in use. A skjorte is still a skjorte if it's a man's button-down shirt, or a bunadsskjorte (bunad shirt). Side note, bunads are typically made as a one-piece dress, out of wool - and only a select few people are certified to make them; it involves hand-embroidering the whole thing, including the shirt in some styles. Some styles are fairly plain with very little embroidery on the dress, none on the shirt, some are extremely elaborate with embroidery on both the bodice AND skirt of the dress, and on the shirt. Many places, the skirt-part of the bunad is referred to as «stakk» (sounds like stack) - but I'm not entirely sure what it would translate to in English. Also, rosemaling (the wood-painting inspiring the embroidery on the bunad) is still practiced as an artform today. #TheMoreYouKnow

Winter boots made out of reindeer skin, sorry Sven. Me: *sips milk* that's kinda dark.

Ppl do realize that the design for the character also needs to be kept fairly simple, cause you know, they need to animate it?

"So this dress is total fantasy." The talking reindeer and trolls in this film however.. typical 19th century..

Please do Snow White, Cinderella, Alice (Alice in Wonderland), Wendy (Peter Pan), Aurora, Ariel, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Esmeralda, Megara, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida and Moana next

I thought the white coronation gowns were supposed to reflect the wealth of the royals? I could be wrong though. Also, why is Disney so afraid of fancy crowns? I think those huge crowns that were actually used by monarchs back in the day would look much more badass and regal than the flimsy little toy-tiara that Elsa had.

Elsa's coronation dress seems to be designed to be more symbolic it seems. Her dress always came off as super restricting to me. Which would fit how she was feeling that whole day.

I’m Norwegian. And I think the drawing y’all did wasn’t as accurate either.

She keeps saying that the dress was not appropriate because it was an evening coronation. But the coronation was actually held during the day. So....

As someone who works in in the animation industry, Please stop referring to the Visual Development artists, the ones who actually design the look of the costumes, as Animators. WE ARE NOT ANIMATORS. Thank you.

Tight lacing is a myth - or mostly a myth. Much like fashion magazines today, the mythical 18 inch waist is more mention in passing in these ads. This Fashion Historian, should know this.

There are so many inacuracess here and it is really hurting my heart. She talks about the Bunad like it WAS something they wore, when it still is something norwegians were... And omg just so many wrong assumptions...

Excuse you, it's "Wandering Oaken's Trading Post *_and Sauna_* " Get it right! *sips tea*

Its really funny for Norwegians to hear how she says the Norwegian words like: bunad, skjorte, skjørt, strømpe😂

Although a lot of what she is saying is correct, much of it is actually really incorrect to the point where I feel like she just says Norwegian words to sound smarter. When she says that these garments WERE called "veske", "strømpe" and "skjørt" she is really just translating the words, purse, stockings and skirts are STILL known as "veske", "strømpe" and "skjørt". Also when you write the "traditional names" for these garments, please don´t mix them in to seem smarter. At Anas 8th layer, when you write apron (known as a "forkle" in Norwegian) and "veske" (purse), couldn´t you have translated both? Or neither, it just seems so half-assed. Another thing that REALLY bothered me was the fact that she put the reindeer shoes together with the bunad, OMG I can´t even begin to describe how inaccurate that is! The sami people are an entirely different group of people, and does NOT wear a bunad, they have their own traditional dress. The bunad shoes look more like the shoes Elsa is wearing, usually in leather, with a small, broad heel, and with a nice, silver buckle on. Please get this right, it´s just spreading misinformation. It´s kind of sad to see how hyped the comments are for this "amazing, totally accurate" Norwegian costumes.

We didn’t wear Sami shoes .......the Sami did...

You know what else is inaccurate, talking snow men.

well, if Arendelle is in Arendal, then she would wear an Arendal bunad the one you made for her, the "historical correct" is a mix between mant different types of bunads so, this isn't correct either Also, when she's saying "strømper", "skjorta" and "väska" it sounds like she's saying professional terms, but she's just saying "socks", "shirt" and "bag" in norwegian xD

Anna was wearing stockings at the coronation, you saw them when she got knocked into the boat. I assume she removed them after trekking through the snow in slippers.

Am I the only Norwegian that’s shocked by how wrong they are about a lot of the facts in the vid?

Theres no way that a royal from Arendal in the south in the 1840s would wear shoes from the indigenous people exclusive to the very north. Thats too far into fiction.

Uhhm, as a norwegian I could tell you that most of the stuff you talked about Anna wearing is still normal to wear today (mostly on Norway's national day) and the shoes you said Anna would wear are Sami, and Anna and Elsa are not Sami. Pluss the Sami shoes are called skaller and would never have been worn in combination with a bunad, with a bunad you would wear bunadsko which are shoes made specifically for wearing with a bunad. But other than that, great video!

There’s a singing snowman and a 21 year old queen who turns July into December in a land that doesn’t exist and ur fixating on a dress with long sleeves😂

Animators don't design the characters (and their costumes). They """just""" make the characters move (believe me, I'm one). So stop referring to the creative teams behind these costume choices as animators when they're most likely to be concept artists, character designers, etc.

It’s fun to hear her pronounce some of the norwegian words like: skjorte, veske, bunad, skjørt. She didn’t pronounce them correctly, but that’s fine. And the skirt, or «skjørt» is called «stakk» on the bunad :)

Can Karolina Żebrowska or Bernadette Banner react to this?

Anna: is wearing reindeer skin boots Sven: looks at her Kristof: “Im breaking up with you“

What!! Combine the Sami shoes (skaller) with bunad???? Thats really insensitive to the cultural supression of the Samis done by Norwegians and not factually accurate at all.

This is really interesting and detailed, but just one note : please stop saying "animators", their job is to ANIMATED haha. Here we would be talking about either props/clothing designers or character designers, just designers in general. Just like an actor isn't responsible for their outfits, neither are animators.

This video was so great up until the shoes... The shoes you put on Ana was (and are still) used by the Sami people, who lived in the furthest north part of Norway. The movie is based in Arendal in the south meaning they where not Sami people and would not use these shoes. And Arendal does not have reindeer the same northern Norway does so they do not use them but rather other animals. Also as mentioned the people who did use these shoes are Sami and did not use the bunad but rather they’re very different kofte (google it if interested). So you would never see these shoes and the bunad in combination. And also the bunad was only for special occasions.

Imagine little girls wearing this dress if they did it accurately

"So this dress is total fantasy" I'm sorry lady but the whole movie is a fantasy, there isn't any girl in this world who had an ice power and create an eternal winter by stepping on the river/sea.

*hires a fashion historian* *completely neglects looking into the history of corset lacing and continues perpetuating the myth that tight lacing was "The Way" *

Glamour: *Makes "100 years of" videos* Us: HIRE A REAL FASHION HISTORIAN!!! Glamour: *hires real fashion historian for frozen video* Us: Now you have Norwegian inaccuracies... ;n;

“Character Designer” and “Animator” are 2 separate jobs on an animated feature film production.

I don't think Elsa should wear shorts sleeve, she wear long sleeve cause she's afraid her power would scared everyone I don't think they watch the movie like seriously 🙄

People: That's not accurate. Disney: you seriously gonna tell us that?

Strømpe is literally just norwegian for "stockings" lol..

The “floral motifs” are called rosemåling

this is an animated movie where a woman has ice powers. its not exactly gonna be accurate.

Am i the only one who cringed when she said that "Tight lacing was a common practice"?

Ok Idk about Norway specifically but corset lacing was never meant to be tightly laced until the late 1890s/early 1900s. Even then it was not common in the slightest and was usually seen as not practical

pftt.... THEY DID NOT WEAR SAMI SHOUES, the sami did!

She’s not criticizing the movie or the animators itself, she was asked to look at period movies, fiction or not, and to show us what it would look like if it was purely Norway, 1840s. It’s just for content or fun. At the end, she explains why the animators made the movie the way they did, and it wasn’t a bad thin

Aaah im Norwegian and trust me you’d need long sleeves in winter! ❄️ It’s always as funny hearing people try to talk Norwegian! You would not wear a bunad if it was not a important event! Only samiis wore those shoes Anna wore!

Many people in Norway dress up in bunads for the 17th of May, which is our national day, so we still use them

when she says things like "short-a" watch every scandi shudder. Skjorta is much more like an english "sh" crossed with a kind of "whoo" sound imo

I think you should check out some of the concept art for the movie. I remember some of the original outfits created in the old character designs showed a bit more accuracy in norwegian dresses and fashion in the time period set in the movie.

how come glamour can’t even get a “fashion historian” that’s correct. I mean it’s much better than most of their fashion history videos, but still, she got quite a few things wrong.

*PLEASE DO MERIDA*

Guys relax. Yes, it’s just a movie and yes, she’s checking the historical accuracy of a movie based on a fairytale, but there’s no need to be like “Oh she said this dress is pure fantasy in a movie with a talking snowman!” This video is just for fun and educational purposes.

A fashion expert who wears a blouse with a geometric optical illusion pattern? ICONIC AF.

... actually corsets weren't that tight..... they could breathe, that was a stereotype made in today's society....

Oh great you hired someone who knows what they’re doing. Now can you hire a decent artist?!

Did she say “something called horse hair”??????? Do people not typically know what horse hair is?

Elsa was originally going to have historically accurate dresses. Elsa's concept artwork shows Elsa in historically accurate dresses. Dark Elsa wears three historically accurate dresses.

She really didn’t have to try to pronounce all those norwegian words to sound smarter tho, cause she butchered them all and it was just a little redundant. “a shirt called shirt.” “a bag called a bag”..

THAT NORWEGIAN PRONOUNCIATION THO..... *cringes in Scandinavian*

The bunad is still very much in use. During may 17th, Norways national day, if you go out to the streets, that's what the majority of people are wearing. There are different bunads for each municipality, in different colours and embroideries. Getting a bunad isn't something you just to the supermarket for, either. Only ceritfied people can make them, they are hand sewed, and can cost up to 50 000 norwegin kroner (5 700 dollars)

I've been binge watching all of these historically accurate fact-check videos for an hour now and I'm in love with this! Please keep making these! These are so cool, unique, and entertaining!!

Hey, you know, the Norwegian isn't perfect, but A plus for effort. :)

We need Karolina Żebrowska and Bernadette Banner here!

I love this girl, but the second she said corsets make it hard to breathe I wanted to die. Corsets aren’t uncomfortable! They are the precursors to bras and the only people who would lace tightly we’re noble teenagers trying to get attention at important events! Corsets are not evil!!!

"Bunad" is of Norway's most culturally and historical pieces of clothing (and it is still used in the most formal of settings in today's Norway). Thanks for calling it a "costume" 😂😂

Corsets did not exist for hundreds of years. Stays did. Corsets were invented during the Victorian period. Tight lacing was not widespread, although small waists were fashionable.

Nice video, but the fact that that kinda shoes were worn by the Sámi people does not mean that they were worn by everyone in Norway. The Sámi people are the native people of Northern Europe and they're not the same as just regular Norwegians or Swedes or Finns. They're of a different ethnicity and they have their own culture, not to mention they have been treated rather horribly by the governments and the people of the countries they live in. I don't know if the use of shoes similar to theirs spread to the non-Sámi people in Norway, but if it did, saying Anna, who is not Sámi, should wear them, is incorrect. And quite disrespectful! You wouldn't make 19th century Americans wear native clothing unless they themselves were natives, would you? It's the same thing. Again, I might be wrong and the style if shoe might've spread to the non-Sámi population, but you did not mention that in this video, and thus I'm just telling you this thing here.

I would argue that Elsa was wearing long sleeves to make absolutely sure that she didn't accidentally touch anyone. Also since she was so isolated, she probably didn't care much about the current fashion.

I am Norwegian and when she tried to say "skjorte" i was like: Oof.... Because this was what i heard: "sjårta" It honestly would have been better if she just said it in English.

Please get a new artist for this, just please.

They did it well for a design that's supposed to sell dolls and costumes though

5:14 Elsa's 'historically accurate' dress looks more like King George but genderbent-- thought this was supposed to be Norway- not Victorian England-

Being Norwegian listening to a historian trying to sound smart in my language.

I can't be the only one annoyed that they keep referring to traditional clothing as costumes

00:50 I deadass thought they were going to talk about the historical accuracy of Elsa’s ice stress and I was going to comment how ridiculous that was until this point 🤦🏾‍♀️

“So this dress is a total fantasy” *Ah yes but of course, the trolls, the living snowman, the girl with ice powers and the giant snow monster aren’t*

Okay but can we stop referring to traditional clothing as costumes?

The bodices in Norway when you were a bunad actually depends on where you are in Norway

Nobody: Literally no one: Glamour: “ThAtS iNcOrReCT”

(5:24) am i the only one that says 'and sauna' after she says 'wandering oaken's trading post'

the coronation outfit you drew looks so much better then the movie and so does anna

Everything seemed right to me except for the boots- he wouldn’t have had winter boots in the store because it was summer when everything turned frozen. Not trying to sound critical just an observation!

I love these new “opinions you didn’t know you needed” videos that have been popping up on my recommended

I think the reason why they didn’t take the full historically accurate route is because animation would be really hard having to deal with long hair, giant dresses, and capes.

I did notice that the funeral dress was quite a bit bigger than other dresses they wore in the film I wonder if they were just trying to give her a more casual realistic look for running on the mountain & things like that I think it would be interesting to hear what the artists original plans were and how they ended up to this as final if they were even different at one point I really enjoy these videos though about historical clothing

The drawings are not professional.

I like the way you pronounce strømpe😂 1:58

I enjoyed this video very much. I love historical clutching in general, and this has inspired me to start reading and researching more about northern European historical clothing. I am especially a fan of embroidery since i have been doing it since i was 5 years old.

You know it doesn’t need to be historically accurate? ELSA CAN WEAR WHATEVER SHE WANTS, THAT’S FACTS