Fashion Curator Reviews Historic Costumes In Famous Movies

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  @HistoryHit · 4 years ago · pinned

  Hope you enjoyed guys! In terms of fashion, which historic period would you most liked to have lived through? 🤔

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  @augustgirl515 · 1 year ago

  I absolutely love how enamored with the clothing she was. Even when it wasn't fully period appropriate, she still appreciated the craftmanship or the styling or creativity. You can truly tell she lovesssss fashion and knows her stuff.

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  @ESE33 · 2 years ago

  She's so softspoken and lovely. I love her appreciation for the costumes and how happy she is watching these clips. A lot of people reacting to historical costumes always laugh or roll their eyes at the costuming in movies if it's inaccurate, and she didn't. I really appreciate that.

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  @danielkennedy5260 · 1 year ago

  This woman bringing boho chic into the discussion about pride and prejudice like I’m actually OBSESSED with her

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  @John081590 · 1 year ago (edited)

  The earrings that Olivia Colman is wearing in the first clip is pretty accurate too. It appears to be foil backed diamonds. During that time, they still did not develop cuts of  faceted stones optimizing brilliance and fire. Diamonds being very hard makes it also difficult to facet at that time, so the early faceted cuts were table cuts and rose cuts, as seen in the clip. To enhance the brilliance of gems, they put metal  foil at the back of the stones. I love that they put that detail in.

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  @eli3568 · 3 years ago

  I love her observations about the period in which historical adaptations are produced. We can't help but insert our own culture in it, no matter how hard we try to perfectly recreate the past.

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  @Canuck13 · 4 years ago

  With all due respect, I disagree with your comments regarding the Titanic clip. Those dresses were in fact modelled directly out of period magazines and can be easily found. They are accurate right down to the fabric used. James Cameron even purchased original period clothing that was just altered to fit the actors. An example of this is Rose’s red evening dress in the scene of her hanging off the back of the ship when she first meets Jack. There were many others too. He hired the same carpet company that had supplied the carpet for the original ship to reproduce that same carpet for use on the movie ship. Anyone who goes to that level of detail, to purchase and hire original period pieces and manufacturers still in operation is not going to be Hollywood in his presentation. I would think he would be going in exactly the opposite direction.

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  @Vinc3mint · 4 years ago

  I love how much she clearly loves fashion and fashion history, and gets all excited about the different clothes and costumes.

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  @anmepa93 · 4 years ago

  The grade she gives "The Iron Lady" is kind of unfair considering they showed her the scene before she becomes the Margaret Thatcher we are acquainted with. The outfit she's wearing there is supposed to look kind of out of character in comparison to the "transformation" she goes through.

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  @naomiweaver1855 · 1 year ago

  That was super fun. With The Iron Lady, if you listen to the actors at the beginning of the scene, they’re talking about changing her look. They want the hats to go, and the look she has on has to change. So what she’s wearing in the scene is what disappears when she hits the road as a well-known politician. It isn’t representative of what she eventually wears.

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  @AllIsWellaus · 4 years ago

  Kate Winslet's costume from Titanic is an exact replicate from the Edwardian period. I found the original source some years ago.

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  @ClarkRahman · 4 years ago (edited)

  This woman is the David Attenborough of costume historians. I love how she whispers as if she is about to startle exotic animals in their natural habitats. "And here we see the very rare ruffle, considered to be functionally extinct in this period by most experts..."

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