The Best Outlander Costumes Historically Accurate or Not | ⭐OSSA 

True and as it's said Bri and Claire also wanted the wedding dress to look more modern, because Bri originally wanted to wed in the 20th century.

@@lilymorgenstern512 yes! I came to this comment section to also tell this. But you beat me to it. 👍

The designers said they had Bri and Claire make those alterations in purpose. They're marrying the 1760s and the 1960s on purpose

Briana's dress is bland and uggly.🙈

They NEED to feed the AI proper pronunciations!😠

It was so bad lol

What's weird is that she pronounced it right earlier in the vid!!

Here, here!

At least she didn't say Ver-sails....

keepdancingmaria That'd be totally wrong- they're not in Pittsburgh! LOL

Thank you. The Versailles one really irritated me. Do better, narrators. 😡

the mispronouncements were very distracting.

Caitriona Balfe also

I think it's a computer voice.

It is getting old. I may stop watching their videos. Just pathetic.

And “Versize” lol

Tari Herron hear, hear!

But since they were from the future, they chose the white wedding gown that already had become standard for brides.

White, for bride's dresses, didn't become 'standard' until AFTER the wedding of Queen Victoria. Some were still made out of what people had. Personally, I HATED 'Claire's' red dress. However, I LOVED 'Louise's' green flowered dress, with all the bows down the front!@@tinahamilton9058

They’re only the OSSA narrators. Are they mentally challenged?

Susan In South Florida 😂😂

You would think they could get the pronunciation of the actors’ names correct!

Alex Williams. Exactly!! Americans don’t know how to pronounce anything but American English.

If I are these narrators and I didnt know how to say the name/word - I would find out! It's not hard, Google is RIGHT THERE!!!

It can be said in many ways, here in the UK that’s how the majority of us pronounce it aswell as some Parisians

@@nessadrake I have never heard Versailles pronounced like that

No, she said Vur-size 🧐🙅🏽‍♀️ the worst!

I am not sure where you got that information about cartridge pleats, there are multiple surviving textiles from the 18th century that have cartridge pleating. You see them on surviving robe a la anglaise and few italian gowns. While it is not common, and you see knife pleats and box pleats more often, there is the odd dress with cartridge pleats. Cartridge pleating your skirts was a typically Dutch thing to do. It was popular in the Netherlands, despite not being at all fashionable in France or England. So with were Outlander is set, it makes sense and technically is accurate.

Vanessa Haugen I didn’t know it was popular in the Netherlands. It had become popular in the Victorian era to redo 18th century gowns and reuse them as costume gowns. Costume balls were very popular. So some remade them by adding cartridge pleats, redoing the stomach, etc.

A robot voice is less annoying.

They created new tartans designs especially for the show. And it's not a documentary. They made it their own way.

I read somewhere that the tartans were lost after they were outlawed, and no one knows for sure what the plaids looked like. Pictures and scraps of fabric were forbidden. True?

The "real" patterns as you call them were made up during Victoria's time in the reinventing of Scotland's history. And no, bright and true black dyes were unavailable until the development of the aniline dyes. Green was not available in Scotland, as it was a 2 fold process involving careridden dying with indigo from the Americas and then an overdying with yellow. The Scots would've used local Woad instead of the expensive and tricky indigo, which have a much inferior blue. Inferior both in colour intensity and in fastness. This 2 step process was difficult, and came out more often as one of the many shades of browns and greys. Not to mention, the fabrics were meant to disguise the men, and blend into the native landscape (think heather). Thus the various checks which gave a watching eye a more broken outline, rather than solid colours. Bright colours would've worked against that purpose. Note, I'm not denying that clans would favour one pattern over another, and that those patterns came to identify those groups. But that was an emergent purpose, not the initial one. The "Scotland" and it's tartans that emerged from Victorian England, never really existed as a real thing. Almost completely invented "out of whole cloth" so to speak. I hope this helps.

I actually had to stop. Wish they'd at least have subtitles available so we could watch it with the sound off.

I don't think I will pay attention to the wigs, if they are as bad as you say. I'd rather not deliberately diminish my enjoyment of the show.

Martrixcolor, Thank-you! I thought I was the only picky crab who noticed. Considering the budget for the show one would think wardrobe/make-up could spring for some decent wigs.

Terry Dresbach has said that Claire's French dresses were deliberately designed after a lot of New Look dresses to further illustrate how Claire is from another time period. (Which doesn't make you wrong. Just pointing out it was an artistic liberty.)

@@pompe221 yes, but the New Look came out AFTER she went thru the stones. She is supposed to have designed them herself in the books. They are STUNNING though.

Agree-tbh ALL of her corsets (or stays as I suppose they were then) look so ill fitting and tight. Like damn, give her some breathing room-tightlacing isn't gonna become a thing for a while yet, guys. Let her chemise come up a bit, too, and save her skin from being cut into so much by her own stays.

True, but it was Claire's vision. Same reason her red dress in France was so inaccurate! It's based on modern things she likes.

@@victoriarobb6563 Fair enough. That would help explain it.

When was he wearing a plaid after 45' in Scotland? Can't remember.

Lily Morgenstern he is shown wearing his kilt in Season 5, but that was when they were in America and my guess is that he keeps in hidden away.

@@joyholmes254 Oh, in America it's not illegal to wear a plaid and in the books it's said, that it was Hector Cameron's. Jocasta gave it to Jamie. If I remember correctly.

Personally as a costume design enthusiast I would disagree. Brianna's wedding dress is made from amazing fabric, and the embroidery is stunning. Especially incorperating scottish thistles is a cute detail. The cut also isn't too horrible... and the light colour obviously references more modern wedding dresses. Fits well for Brianna as she is a modern-ish person in historical time

Well, since they bought the dress from a brothel with coin that was meant for the Jacobites (Ned is the one who got it, I can't remember if it was his own money or whatever), it makes sense that Claire had such a beautiful dress. Bree's they had to rework or make themselves, so it makes sense that hers is more plain. It's lovely that Bree is safe among her family and can wear more modern styles, unlike her mother who had to try so hard to fit in for fear of being found out.

@@victoriarobb6563 I was thrilled to see Bree get married with her family. But her dresses when she was pregnant at Aunt Jocasta's were prettier. They could have done a better job. I did like the Scottish touches, and orange blossoms. I also thought since it was white, her beautiful red hair should have been worn down. But I guess being a Mom she had to give up the "maiden" look.

@@JeanBakula the dresses Bree wore at Jocasta's were "prettier," sure. But she didn't choose any of those; they're the style of the time. Her wedding dress is very like late 1960s wedding dresses (albiet with a much lovelier fabric, and it's a little longer than was fashionable in the 60s.) It's integral to Bree's character to show so obviously a difference in her dress, it shows a difference from the people around her. She does not fit in, and her costuming does a great job of showing that!

@@victoriarobb6563 She is trying to act like she fits in more than she does. We can agree to disagree. I didn't like the dress at all. It looked like an everyday dress. Bree wouldn't have worn dresses she hated while pregnant. She is too strong willed. It's OK to have different opinions.

They didn't really care

It's a computer generated voice.

Now, be fair. She rolled out "Sam" like a boss! LOLOL.