Fashion Historian Fact Checks Bridgerton's Wardrobe | Glamour 

😂 I snorted at this because it’s true!

Yeah at the time they would not be taking off every thing just for a little afternoon delight

No it wouldn’t considering the fact that she would just have three layers and no underwear because underwear or drawers were not a thing at the time

He can just lift the skirt... They don't wear panties

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What do you mean? They are somewhat accurate.

Bridgerton is more of an AU than fantasy. My issue with the AU is that the writers purported to address racial issues and said there was going to be a diverse cast, but, overwhelmingly, the cast was white as a sheet--one or two East Asian actors and a handful of Black characters but no Blacks among the extras is NOT a diverse cast--and there was maybe one line that acknowledged race, and that line left the door wide open for a shitload of racial issues in Bridgerton'verse to be addressed the show completely ignored. The show NEEDS at least one writer of color.

Party City is polyester and plastic galore🗑️, but they did aim to make the costumes expensive as possible with modern dior luxury textiles(I didn't like it), but in reality fashion back then was very simplistic, except the court dresses.

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@@carrywon8767 Those court dresses were wild, I love their ridiculousness, with the paniers at bust height, and you never see those in films or on tv. :D

That is such a good observation.

Can't blame people for having opinions

Exactly! The actresses were complaining about how uncomfortable the corsets were, but the proper corsets for that era were a lot more like modern bras…..

fr like what are you tight lacing

Like the way regency stays were made it made them completely soft so all you’d be doing is ripping them if you try to tightlace

Hollywood will take any chance to demonize corsets, stays and pair of bodies😭

@@niarahancock4739 honestly tho

Thank you. I feel like they may have intentionally made her outfits unflattering for what? To make it more obvious she was "token big girl" in the series? Being a bigger girl.with a bigger bust, just made me sad.

Her outfits were unflattering because it was a big point in the books. In book canon, her mom controlled her wardrobe and made her wear those dresses. Penelope knew she was dressed hideously. It is even said that the silhouette of those dresses made her look bigger and colors did not suit her at all. In later books, she got her own money and her mom lost hope trying to marry her off, so Penelope started to dress herself up on her own. So this style is done intentionally.

@@SkittyBat read the books dumbass

It was like that in the book. It was supposed to show her mother's poor taste.

Yes. Love her ❤

Ikr? She’s better than that other woman who did the Beauty And The Beast video!

agreed! and they had so many costumes that a lot of them looked cheaply made and kinda half assed. Lady danbury’s costumes were disgusting

When they showed daphne's corset bruises and rashes, I nearly screamed Let.Them.Wear.Shifts. FYI justice for the bonnets.

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I have worn enough corsets and stays that even the sight of someone wearing one without a shift makes me wince and clutch my ribs.

Hopefully they'll make some changes with season 2. 🤞

Well-fit corsets shouldn’t be uncomfortable! Or at least not after you break it in like you would a newly bought shoe! However I imagine it could only be so comfortable to people with IBS or crohns/colitis though:/

@@Thatgeekycanadian I know, I just thought she was gonna call stays corsets.

@@Thatgeekycanadian It's a pet peeve of mine how corset-wearing is always portrayed as a hellish experience because tight-lacing/sexism/misogyny. It's also a pet peeve how people lump all shaping garments 1900 and before together as 'corsets', which, of course, makes them all EVIL OPPRESSIVE GARMENTS! *twitch* I've worn a corset before, and, when you're wearing a corset that's the correct size and the laces have been tightened correctly, it's comfortable. The purpose of the corset is to provide the desired shape and to provide support for all the layers of cloth you're going to be wearing--and, trust me, the weight of those layers add up--not to shrink your waist. You do NOT want to have to support the weight of six petticoats, plus your skirt (and possibly an overskirt), 100% on your hips for the entire day. I've seen pictures of a woman wearing an 1850s-ish dress with a corset (without undergarments, IIRC) and without, and the dress looks so much better on her when she's wearing the corset. It hung better on her, it fit her better, it was a cleaner and smoother look.

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I don't even know if that logic stands anymore. Fashion history has seen a boom over the past few years especially due to RU-vid and social media creators who are educating the masses to historical costume accuracy. They should take note and start dressing their actors properly

Except for the maids. What's with the Victorian caps and capes?

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Agree to disagree 😏

Personally I prefer clothes with historical elements but still appealing to modern audiences. I'm all for fictionalized clothes, as long as you can still tell the setting of the story.

Although I have to admit I'm kind of sick of the dramatic corset lacing trope in modern films. 😒 It's getting really old.

Right???

Its a movie. Changes are made to the storyline and cast, why not make changes to the fashion and music also. The fashion was similarand close enough while adding pizzaz. Loved everything about it.

This is still done...just watch football (US football). You can see the outline of the pads! LOL

Some men also wore stays around the waist or structured vests that were very fitted, to slim the waist

@@Costumerchx girdles for the win! I am having so many flashes to Zap Brannigan.

The Regent Prince George, who would go on to be George the 4th (and who obviously the Regency period is named after), was so fat he got custom made calf stuffers to make his legs look all that more manly and muscly.

This is why DRAG QUEENS rule the world! Not only do they wear padding, sis they make it themselves! ♥️♥️♥️

Because they wanted to make her look fat. She’s a size 6

I think it was to show her as the "black sheep" of the Featherington family. She was the "fat one", the one never expected to get a suitor. So they made her bustline that more higher to emphasize her frumpiness.

I took it to be a subtle reminder towards the fact that her mother put more attention towards the two older (more conventionally pretty) daughters. To me it seemed like it was meant to be a poorly fitting hand-me-down dress.

It was to show how little care her mother put into her outfits since she didn't think she was attractive enough to marry well anyway.

In the books, it's a major point that her mother is constantly dressing her in clothes that don't suit her in color or body shape (despite her repeated protestations). I'm not sure if that's why they made that choice (because since she's the only with it, it's clearly a choice) but that's the interpretation I made.

I was yelling at the tv the whole time.

WHY WOULD YOU TIGHT LACE IF YOU CANT SEE THE WAIST!!!!!!

oh my god same, my husband was eventually like "it's fiction, it doesn't matter all that much"

Me too. The historically accurate ones are more appealing than the "creative route" taken by the costume designer.

You should see Emma! It was nominated for best costume designe. They are 99.9% accurate and beautiful to look at.

@@florenciapena233 they're perfect!

You must see the tv version of pride and prejudice. I think that's accurate

@@Ryanmanification it's not lol

Dangerous Liasons starring Glenn Close has completely accurate costuming.

I agree, cheap satin and mesh tulle can be distracting

I can understand the decision with bonnets, although it may have been better to have a slightly smaller brimmed hat. Mind you the whole series has so many anachronisms, the costumes are only one.

to be honest i agree fully with you but there's a very large audience full of people with poor taste who would definitely think they were less attractive sadly

Certainly for a period piece aiming for historical accuracy, but the Bridgerton series is not, it's more a faux historical romantic fantasy, based off a series of romance novels, not history tomes. As such I think it's completely appropriate to make the costumes only kind of accurate, much like the rest of the story.

The problem isn't about image, its about money, people would dress lavish if they could.

Have you seen Micarah Tewer's video "Why the costumes of Little Women did not deserve an oscar"? She goes into bonnet overload there!

At least they’re there in the Pride and Prejudice miniseries.

Like Raissa said, it looks like it encases the main character's head. But the background actors wear them. They could wear a bonnet but with a smaller curved brim

@@Ryanmanification I think that’s right, you wouldn’t be able to see the actors’ faces properly. However make them with much smaller brims.

The bonnets would be a lighting nightmare as they would cause unfortunate shadows. Which could possibly slow down the production.

Good advice. I watched the first episode and the anachronisms bothered me. I think I will take a second look and watch it as a fantasy.

I wish Emma 2020 won an oscar for best costume design, the clothes were gorgeous and accurate

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@Nofa Fauzia I agree, most movies in the 90s were modern adaptations of novels in the 18th to 19th century!

You should start watching costube videos. There is a community dedicated to historical costume, people like Bernadette Banner, Karolina Zebrowska, Abby cox, Zack pinsent, priorattire and plenty others talk about historical fashion. Besides youtube, there are several books about historical fashion (I recommend looking on bookdepository) as well as fashion plates you can find online to see what fashion would have looked like in a particular year. Maybe this can help with your research 😊

@@an6596 where was your advice when I started with novel 😂 thank you so much 🙏

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Agree. I love this channel .

Actually, if you go down the rabbit hole (research), there is some controversy about which months hosted The Season, and the Little Season as well. Check it out.

@@marymaryquitecontrary I did quite a bit of research into it at one time. The Little Season seems to be a non-event, and it was never referred to by that name during the Regency. Like many terms, it was a Victorian phrase, when they tried to reinvent the Regency at the end of the nineteenth century. They may have been in town but they didn't call it the Little Season. And the autumn was a good time for house parties. The Season was that small collection of months between the end of Lent and July, and that was when young girls were presented at Court and Parliamentary business was concluded for the summer. It wasn't nearly as neat and tidy as the novels would have you believe, though. It wasn't the only time people went to London, but since the centre of their power was in the country and the land, most aristocrats spent more time there than in town. But as I said, it wasn't neat and tidy. The politicians spent more time in London, for example, as did the high-ups in the army who were stationed at Whitehall. People came and went. Best to check the times the theatres and other entertainment venues were open, too, to see when high society was in town. A few aristocrats stayed in London all year round. Women would come to London to give birth, as that was where the good midwives were, and they refused to travel around the country. Check the letters of Lord Chesterfield, Parliamentary terms, the records left by Mr. Pretty the man-midwife, the newspapers of the time and the many letters available.

You just unleashed some deep..deep deeeep memories 😭🤣🤣 My mom used to collect those!

I will admit that I stopped watching it at first because of that. But then a couple weeks later I went back knowing that it was fantasy and not even remotely historically accurate. After that I had a lot of fun.

I was quite bored by it tbh. At some point after episode 4 or so I just read the plot on Wikipedia and called it a day. Julie Andrews' voice was the only good thing about that show.

It wasn't meant to be historically accurate

I didn’t realise where I had seen the painting. I went to the Art Gallery last year for the first time in about 20 years, and so I knew I had seen it relatively recently.

I think that's the prevailing theory for this character. Someone said she loses about 20 lbs in the book where she becomes the main character, so I imagine they're just going to fit her clothes properly instead of making the actress lose weight. Voila! A gorgeous "slender" figure appears.

There's also the fact that there was hardly any time for actors to do fittings. If you look, almost all of the dresses everyone--including Daphne--wears are too high. It's more a time constraint than anything else. You only noticed it with Penelope because it was pointed out to you.

Penelope is a romantic lead later (in the books at least). They're probably setting up for a "makeover" where she will look much better, without actually having to lose weight.