Historian Fact Checks Aladdin's Wardrobe | Glamour 

Because "the content was changed" is your default or American have been bombing Iraq a lot?

@@fionafiona1146 we bomb Iraq a lot

@@painoftheheart12 True

Honestly (as an american), it really annoyed me that they changed the name. It had nothing to do with the war whatsoever...

Dakota Conn still it’s just a little insensitive to capitalize off of the place their country is literally bombing don’t you think?

Yeah, the blue one is terrible. It’s not modest at all

It is very nice. Though blue suits her more.

@@leenfira6821 I agree. I've read many complaints about how Jasmine was not wearing her bare midriff outfit in the live-action film. But Jasmine represents the politics of her homeland, therefore wearing an outfit that resembles a seducing belly dancer is not appropriate. I think the live-action film did her justice by removing that.

@@taiya001 b b bvb.p

@@karmeeleon I agree with you. Though I know that some complained about how Jasmine's outfits look more Indian. Personally, that doesn't bother me since the creators confirmed that Agrabah is a port city with Middle Eastern, Indian, and even East Asian influences. In fact, looking at India's culture, you can easily see some Middle Eastern influence. The Taj Mahal looks like a Middle East mosque.

Omg yes!

We all know that it's not accurate

please!!!

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"ok so they didnt turn into llamas and the llamas couldnt talk"

Me too!!

Xiletelo Mabasa well it’s not real. It’s fiction. Maybe they thought of a fictional place that had Indian,Arab,Turkish, culture all mixed into one. Again it is fiction but it is quite interesting

SAME

Xiletelo Mabasa bro me too

Same i thot they were indian cuz the palace looked like a gurdwara

Lionstar16 😭😭😭

They have ALL been awfull and messy up till this one

@@LadyLocket i know right? mulan was the worst by far but they all sucked

Bet you couldn’t do better

@@Ava-bv8xq I wish I could ☺️ hahaha

If like me you love textiles, the range of fabrics are gorgeous compared to the simple blue of the animation. I guess social class also dictated heavier amounts of cloth, the higher you went.

No it is not just you.They are pretty good and i think they relay did a great job

Of course.

not just you, jasmine was the sultan's daughter she 100% would NOT be wearing plain blue cloth. if you have money and power you had to show it off!

A salwar kameez(top) always looks beautiful.

@Wade Church hmmm aren't you the same wade church who wasnt able to comprehend that all fashion worn by royals is politically motivated???

@Wade Church I'm not Trying to imply anything. I'm very clearly saying that I've seen you comment quite a bit on other peoples comments and I noticed how vehemently you argued over the political history of clothing. Frankly dude you're making your self look ridiculously silly. People who read your comments don't think hmm he's got a valid point. All royalty (disney princess) related videos are politically charged. I have an interest in "historical clothing" and have yet to see a good video on RU-vid that ignores the importance of political influence on fashion. I went back and watched a few more of past videos and couldn't find one that didn't mention politics multiple times. I can understand your aversion to wanting to see so much politics just about everywhere but if you are a grown adult I'm sorry to say that you are disillusioning yourself if you are not aware that politics is heavy is your life now so no point in whining huh.

@Wade ChurchTo be fair, the person they normally have analyze these videos makes a lot of mistakes.

Wade Church check the comments on the frozen one, there you have some examples.

I haven't watched the other videos but this lady knows her stuff better because she's Turkish

Bio Kimistry mmmnmmm not really :/

YAASSS

I like that the historically accurate Jasmine outfit looks like the live action remake, too.

@@ArtsyChick24 yeah

Muslim vests are shorter because the sash covers the lower parts of the upper body.

Mystery Man Thank you for telling me that. Ya learn something new everyday

it was the disneyfication of the story; in the original, his mother was alive and she was the one who went to the palace to ask the princess hand for him; also, the wizard posed as aladdin's uncle to persuade him to get the lamp.

lmao same ....

Killua zoldyck Same. Jasmine’s looked really pretty.

yeah there is only jafar and iago and they both do not have ME accents.

I think the video is referring to how the "r" is pronounced.

Laila Dawn yes the way it’s pronounced in a posh British accent, or a strong Scottish accent and many others. Many accents roll their r’s. With that logic she’d be saying the same thing if Jafar had a strong Scottish accent.

IKRRRR 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Yeah she is definitely not a linguist

Pandulse123 Nothing low key about it. She has obvious disdain for it but a very professional demeanor.

I’ve seen a lot of criticism for Aladdin over the last few years.

She elegantly dragged its issues the entire video, I lived!!

I didn't like it much either.

Pandulse123 or anything American like this movie. They transformed it into something children can watch

It is a very arab-british accent, I heard it too! A lot of people forget a lot of arab countries were colonised and for a very long time this is how arabs spoke English But if you want to be more obvious about it, point to the guards with HEAVY stereotypical middle eastern accents. It's embarrassing, I have to fast forward those parts

@@starcherry6814 yeah

@@starcherry6814 yup

Yeah, I think this is was an issue with Disney in general, because even with the European princess stories, many of the princesses' gowns weren't that detailed also for the same reasons.

Plus his outfit when he is in Prince clothes is more like the historical look. So in some ways I wonder if at least with him the reason for omitting items was just to try and show just how poor he was. That his outfit was just pieced together out of whatever could be found. Whilst someone poor would still have shoes, someone homeless might not. Like I've seen homeless people in the UK with no shoes. It happens. :( If he'd had a full outfit but still ragged it might not have emphasised his poverty nearly as much.

@@AlexaFaie that's certainly possible, but I've also heard they wanted to make him more appealing to female viewers, and felt the concept art didn't do that enough

@@crzylkfx Why should his look be appealing to female viewers when the movie was made for kids? So little girls would find a teenage boy attractive if he's shirtless? If that was the case then the (probably male) executives who decided to do that have a skewed sense of logic in thinking that way.

@@erinlee5936 It's more likely for older female audiences who would watch it with the children who'd watch. Just because its G (general audience) rated doesn't mean it's only for kids and Disney always aims their movies for everyone

Its not that they didnt do their research the first time...its an animated cartoon, it needs to be simplied for the animators and easily adapted to be 'iconic' and recognizable.

Caligula Longhbottom the live action costumes were heavily inspired by the Indian culture, not Arab.

True!!!!

Not to mention how cheap and tacky they look

guys the 90s version was a cartoon...... please... I could look at the hunchback of notre dame and tell you that the clothes are too minimized, or to Snowhite, the same. It's not a cultural problem, it's not racism, it was a CARTOON

ottmoan empire women weren't adressed as sultana, thy were adressed as "sultans" too

@@NarutoUzumaki-vy3jb Female leaders were called Sultanas, which is the feminine form of Sultan.

@@jaspreetdayal8366 no not in Ottoman Empire, there is not adding a to make feminine form, they were adressed as lady sultan but not sultana www.theottomans.org/english/family/harem2.asp

The story was written before the ottomans

Jaspreet Dayal Yes but in the Ottoman Sultanate all their women were addressed as Sultan since they couldn’t ascend the throne. Also the Ottomans ruled over Baghdad for some time after Sultan Murad IV. In the case that there were no male heirs of the throne then the throne would go to another whole dynasty and not a female member of the Sultanate.

Topher Topher Ur wasn’t as bad as you think it is

Oh God the Mulan illustrations were TERRIBLE

@@mcwyman7928 IKR

Christian Salgado the illustrations in Mulan WAS AS BAD AS I REMEMBER

@@iamchristian1129 you again 😩

@Wade Church You can always skip straight to the drawings. Though I find it interesting how you prefer scribbled drawings onto mannequins with little to no context, over in-depth analysis of how the social and cultural conditions of the time actually influenced these outfits. 🙄

Wade Church to understand the fashion you have to understand the surrounding politics.

@Wade Church but what they wear is different based on the time and the first half of the video they tried to guess the period and shown the clues that points to it. With other Disney films they've done it's a bit easier but because of mixture of different cultures in Aladdin it became quite difficult to decide on a timeline of it so they explained what are the potential clues and why they chose the era they chose to be accurate and informate you about potential misinformation, so noone ( or the minimum of people get mad at them)

@Wade Church and the video is approximately the same length as others they've done

@Wade Church so you just can't see why the politics are important in this vid? Ok, I don't know how else to explain it to you than I just explained before. In the Middle East who is running the countries there is very important for the time and I suppose that lot of people appreciated that they got the right and greatly explained context to the dress decade

@Wade Church She wouldn't because it wouldn't be available to her. The Bollywood outfits white people think about are a movie industry only thing. They didn't use to exist in real life. (Now they do because it's the 21st century). In India/Pakistan even High-end prostitutes use to be covered up back in the day.

@Wade Church That doesn't make sense at all. In the movie this outfit is shown as the norm and you are responding to the OP's comment about it being Bollywood. So you are saying she is wearing it to be rebellious but Bollywood doesn't exist in this fictional world and nothing is explained about her outfit. So which is it ?

@Wade Church eh do you know that it's illegal for a princess in the middle east to be wearing some bras in public?

Jasmines earrings are nice.

These clothes are not indian.. they are mainly for the slave women in the palace ..or the dancers .. when bollywood made a movie about Thief of Baghdad in 40’s the actresses who played slaves were wearing what jasmine is wearing and it became a trend in bollywood till today.

jonathan freeman , jafar's voice actor, is an american

Jasmines were not

Arabian Mariam ur perspective is more informed and as a textile designer I can say it is valuable information

Sara K but isn’t Aladdin supposed be a mix of india and Arab culture since the sultan’s palace is based on the Taj Mahal

Christian Salgado still applies tho

I even checked to make sure I was remembering this right, and sure enough, among the characters who have 'Middle Eastern' accents, it's mostly the guards, henchmen, that one vaguely untrustworthy trader in the intro, and (I think-- I couldn't find the clip--) prostitutes. The heroes sound American. (And there's plenty to say about the fact that the voice cast of this film is almost entirely white and American.) But you're undermining Professor Baltacıoğlu-Brammer's otherwise correct point by picking the wrong footage to illustrate her point

I think they switched to his face to show is less-European features

That’s Exactly what I thought! Lol

Sandra Rose it’s an englishman doing a terrible middle eastern accent but we never noticed because we are largely ignorant of these cultures

He is a British man trying to do a hoge poge of Arabic/Persian/Indian accent while still maintaining the tradition of British villains speech.

Same. Something that slightly puts me off about fashion historians examining the outfits is they are quite rude and disrespectful about it and flat out smashes the designer.

Yeah

This would be kind of difficult because every culture has a Cinderella story.

Lizzie Cottrell it would most likely be the Charles Perrault version which is the one with the glass slipper that everyone knows

sounds so boring, all European dresses are almost exactly the same with a few minor nuances over the centuries

fictionmeister the biggest understatement about history I’ve ever heard!! 😂😂 just because you’re too lazy to research and study historical European clothing doesn’t make you right in saying it’s all the same, it’s like if you said that for Arabic Chinese or Indian clothing

me too ♥

Bio Kimistry not really. It turned Asian than Arabic. And even the new Asian look was not completely accurate anyway

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But she is wearing stays(corset) on a bare skin

Ironically I think his clothing would be the most accurate, right up there with his Middle Eastern accent. Go figure.

@@Nurichiri He has a British accent

@@lillian9445 Still closer than an American one.

@@Nurichiri Idk I think British would be closer to American rather than Middle Eastern

@@lillian9445 I meant that GB is closer to the Middle East than the United States is.

Elisabeth Chavarria omg yes it’s so rude!

I noticed this too, the narrator even sounds irritated... "Ok, moving on..."

They weren't. She was explaining it all in one whole footage that needs to be cut into different parts during editing.

Well when the historian spends the first 5 minutes complaining about the film....

@@amygodward4472 sure she was displeased. but around the internet, not only youtube, it seems normal for historians to complain about the movies. i mean, i am yet to see a video about a movie that a historian says yes! thats it! yes thank god someone did a good movie. the best i have heard was " oh! wow, the armours and the costumes were very accurate, so was the casting and buildings. (and then go on about the lack of spears, use of swords against armour, them bows are not warbows, and that person was historically two different persons, or that other person was banished so was not there when that skirmish happened, or that skirmish happened before the current monarch) but wow overall a very historically accurate movie compared to others, good job. watch this people. "

Same

that’s embarrassing

Read Edward Said's book, Orientalism. Everything's in there.

Yes!

I mean, it doesn’t really matter. The movie only ever claims to draw cultural and aesthetic influences rather than being completely accurate. Cultures, east and west, were meant to be blended.

AMEN. I hate the trashing of designers...they definitely researched all of this 'stuff' but in the end they had to make it SIMPLE for the animation as well as make it easily iconic and recognizable to kids as well as fit in with the time period it was created..the early 90s. While the green Ottoman sultana outfit for Jasmine is lovely, the tiara is too convoluted and complex, the veil would have been too hard to animate and the color green would clash far too much with Jafar. Red and green...yikes.

I understand but it isn’t too hard to make their outfits more modest to fit the actual facts, I’m not saying I want full hand drawn gold embroidery, just clothes instead of skin especially since they already did it with their previous films which were animated more than 40 years prior (I’m looking at you Cinderella and Snow White). The crop top on jasmine seemed wayyy more like what a belly dancer in the modern era would wear than a royal in the ottoman state, which to me seems like they’re fetishising the look and the stereotype rather than focusing on the character.

Still culturally insensitive, as a star wars fans many Americas currently feel some mild version of the Disney effects, without the anachronistic hyperbole.

N A Jay Oh yeah, I’m definetly on board with you there. Disney had that weird period of fetishising people of colour (Jasmine and Pocahontas to name some) Even as a kid I thought that was Pretty weird. I might not have know what Jasmine was supposed to look like, but I was not stupid enough to Think she was supposed to wear a crop top.

@@katrinepetersen2566 this is silly, I thought it was simply because where Jasmine lived the weather was hot. Besides, what's wrong about having a beautiful main character in a Disney movie? Belle was beautiful too. Snowhite was inspired by the beauty canons of the 30s, Cindarella and Aurore by those of the 50s.. There is nothing wrong in having a hot Pocahontas. Had she been uglier, you would have said Disney was racist because it drew only pretty characters for white people.

OMG thank you I knew when I was little that Jasmine was reminding me of something 😂

oh I can answer this they edited it at "the ruff" part to make him sound less British 1:34

@ In the original story Jasmine has fair skin but disney dismissed that like they the dismissed the origin of the story which is in Iraq and the designs and dresses that are more indian or south asian than Arab or even middle eastern

@@yejiii9204 even in India the dress would be culturally inaccurate. Maybe the crop top was easier to animate because there won't be any rustling of garments or so. And yes, if the princess was of Iraq, she wouldn't be white but still be quite fair.

No

@Wade Church People love drama and negativity that's it.

@Wade Church u have no idea what hypocrisy means bc ur being the biggest hypocrite and theres nothing "woke" about wanting to be historically accurate bc its honestly just facts. how can facts be a political statement unless u want to change those facts and then tell people "HA UR JUST BEING A SJW LIBERAL WOKE LOSER, WHO CARES ABOUT UR HISTORY" lmaooooo ur honestly the biggest hypocrite Wade

@Wade Church as far as I remember, lots of teenager girls dressed like that when the film was released. Just look at the Spice Girls or Britney Spears, and you´ll see the inspiration for Jasmine´s attire (short top, big pants and visible midrif). Disney NEVER was historically accurate with the princesses, in fact, they tried to made them as fashionable as posible.

no it's not about being "woke" but educated. everyone who studies non european studies and cultures knows about the science paper "Orientalism". if you want to understand the issues. read it or just shut up because y'all moping about "negativity," even though it's clearly just critical thinking and academic research, look hella dumb.

@Wade Church I doubt children would find that very relatable.

Nocturne22 the movie deserves it

I dont think so

Lol they asked her opinion! 🤷‍♀️

It pissed me off... This was supposed to be about wardrobe.

She was giving context for the time and location. Can’t figure out “historically accurate” dress without time and location.

Agreed. The narrator was completely unnecessary in this. Just let the exist talk. I promise, wet won't get confused.

Agreed, it felt like the narrator was only interested in the fashion and was annoyed at the rest of it.

I know right! The historian was brilliant but the narrator was so annoying. It seemed rude to cut off the historian.

But that is surely the editing not the narrator. The narrator was probably given a script, and the editor chose how it was put together.

Right

A lot of Americans are tired of it too. It undermines otherwise okay movies! Makes them feel like racist propaganda.

I bet Americans in your movies are portrayed as stupid, greedy or selfish, I know for a fact they are in most countries yet here I am not offended or caring at all. Follow my example and don’t let the stupid beliefs of people who don’t know your culture hurt you.

So you only saw Cold War era movies, please shut up and look for some more filmography with quality (besides, most of villains in USA movies has British accent, because it sounds so freaking good and elegant, all directors said that)

Cold war baby..

Dalie's Art Lab - What I’ve noticed is that most villains have posh English accents.... As a Brit I take it as a compliment 👹😂

Same

I know right those dances are mainly inspired by Indian classical dance kathak.

Carrot Artichoke she’s really right though

If not for this video, I never would have known

As she should be, because it's true and entire cultures are being harmed because of it?

Exactly... plus children do not give two fucks about historical accuracy and the more complex outfits would be hard for kids to remember and identify when at walmart picking out action figures... They certainly researched historically accurate fashion but its a disney movie for goodness sake not a history lesson. And to be frank, its clearly more based on Mughal India than whatever Ottoman nonsense shes talking about anyway.

Because the layer 1 pictures would’ve probably all been nudes...

Even if someone used underwear back then it would be a linen diaper. People washed themselves after defecating just like today so hygiene was not a problem.

This video is coming after the much criticised Mulan video. There was a lot of backlash about the illustrations in that one. So I imagine they got a better illustrator for this one. They can't really do anything about older videos unless they remake them

The only truly terrible one was Mulan

Because the left worships Islamic culture for some reason

@@milliebilling5352 stfu

I would be so glad if that were the reason! I love her

Yup, with Chinese fashion and architecture. I would be a different kind of beautiful.

kuwa jzhn labari aka rast nakai

These types of pants, salwar, are worn in India too! I guess the Arabs introduced then to India

Sweaty Skeleton yeah he had a British accent and he’s the biggest villain

sure ill correct you! I even checked to make sure I was remembering this right, and sure enough, among the characters who have 'Middle Eastern' accents, it's mostly the guards, henchmen, that one vaguely untrustworthy trader in the intro, and (I think-- I couldn't find the clip--) prostitutes. The heroes sound American. (And there's plenty to say about the fact that the voice cast of this film is almost entirely white and American.) But you're undermining Professor Baltacıoğlu-Brammer's otherwise correct point by picking the wrong footage to illustrate her point.

I think they were trying to show less-European features

But isn’t his voice actor American?

Moana actually was pretty accurate if you watch the bonus features. The point is that its a childrens movie. Pocahontas in reality was forced to leave the woods, she took a Christian name, caught small pox and died. Good luck showing that version to children.

Yes Moana

@@mrmrswelch7641 Just because its for children, doesn't mean it shouldn't have a level of accuracy. People should learn about the life of the actual Pocahontas and not obsess of keeping an animated movie's plot in tact.

MrMrs Welch they're talking about the character's clothes

Christian Salgado Moana’s clothing was actually pretty accurate. Her dress would’ve most likely been one piece rather than two, but the patterns and colors used are spot-on.

Accurate to what, mermaid culture? Lol

Sabreen Rashid well since the original story was published in 1837 and judging by Ariel and Eric’s human wardrobe, the film takes place in the late 19th century. There could be potential in comparing Ariel’s pink and blue gowns with Victorian nautical fashion. And with her mermaid attire, it could be compared to historical art depictions of mermaids at the time.

@@harrisonschaufel7309 Yeah, you wish. Since "historical art depictions of mermaids" are nude.

Exactly. Yet everyone likes to lump Arabs with Persianate cultures

That's the whole point the historian was making - the story was set closer to Persian than Arab civilisations.

The story was happening in iran while the ottoman empire was ruling what did you expect?

Because Iraq was bombing Kuwait

@@BUSeixas11 and the us was bombing iraq

​@@BUSeixas11kuwait stole Iraqi oil and the Kuwaiti king refused to negotiate in diplomatic talks and went out calling Iraqi women prostitutes in a pubilc speech and the US embassy reassured Iraq not to intervene in case of a war