"Bridgerton" Costumes Are A Historical Mess, But They Kinda Work 

copying the description here cause no one reads it: forgot to mention that I focus - as always - on women's clothing here, but Pinsent Tailoring should drop his review soon! also check out Costuming Drama's interesting video about some of the issues within the show: brdesk.info/like/video/bZC2qqfEiMuKuZY&

regency does 1960s

What do you think about Outlander suits?

In the books, the Featheringtons are notorious for wearing hideous dresses so Bridgerton got that right.

y’all need to watch a documentary if you want accuracy. is creativity even a thing that’s accepted anymore?

Your outfit today is just beautiful 🤩

I decided not to watch it because I saw the preview on Netflix and thought "why is everyone's bustline halfway through their titties?" And I ultimately decided I couldn't get past that.

honestly, really glad you had the disclaimer at the beginning RE: costume design is not all about accuracy. there's a level of entertainment and meeting audience expectations--whether those expectations are accurate or not--that can sometimes take precedence. the disclaimer at the beginning just helps me know that you're doing a good-faith analysis. much easier to watch!!

Regardless of the subject matter, I love watching someone with a passion for something talk about it! It’s amazing!

Bridgerton, like the books it's taken from, is a regency fantasy romance. It's not meant to really reflect the era it's inspired from. Although it's much less obvious that it's artificial in the books because your brain makes up the environment, people, costumes etc, as you read along. So you're less susceptible to imagine cheap synthetic fluorescent fabrics lol I like the bold color choices for the Penelope character and even her mother, BUT I hate the feeling that the people who casted the actresses and those who created the designs thought they were too fat and/or old and adjusted the cuts according to that stupid opinion. Which gives us the quad boob effect on Penelope's dresses, or the wtf fitted-waist on a high-waisted dress for the mom…

The fashion was definitely confusing but still gave a fun twist, like Jane Austen meets Hunger Games Capitol people

It was very fictional and whimsically romantic...so in that sense they can go as wild as they want, and it was GORGEOUS! Empire waist with hoops is 😂😂

'My clock is ticking, I should ~silence~ it' sounded much darker to me than it was intended 😂

I would be interested in what you think of the costume accuracy in Stanley Kubrick’s movie BARRY LYNDON. Kubrick was a stickler for accuracy and for me it looks to be one of the most accurate depictions of the 18th century that I have seen. But you know far more about this than I do and if you’ve seen it , it would be interested to hear your opinion

What an incredibly fascinating report! Thank you!

You should make a video like this on Anne with an E. I’m not sure what era it’s in but i’m curious to see the accuracy.

I am so scared to watch this because I loved the series and I suspect the worst😆 Yet here I am

I was here when Likes were 69K N I C E

"trains" is a piece of clothing!?

I guess they're trying to make a Marie Antoinette movie again in terms of costume design

YESSS I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS EXACT VIDEO!! Like what were they thinking???

I just can't get over minecraft music playing in the background

I'd like her critizising Peaky Blinder's costumes as well

THE BAD GUY STRING QUARTET I CRINGED SO HARD hahahahah

Yes, a lot of series and movies show what Americans THINK Brittish people looked like, but they have no idea of the class system and such. The garments are not always that bad, some are actually good. Bridgerton is just fantasy and fine.

Regency dresses were literally sheath dresses like why the hell they do the corset thing?? The dresses LITERALLY HAVE UNDERBOOB WAISTLINES YOU DONT NEED A NATURAL WAIST!!!

Found it on Netflix last night... already half way through season 1. I see it as a fantasy world, so all the stuff mentioned works for me. And having Julie Andrews as your gossip girl narrator, brilliant!

The mid-breast empire waistline of some of the dresses made me wince - had to be uncomfortable and looked jarring. And the park daywear dress that was clearly meant for evening wear made me wonder if the character was going to get a set down from one of the fashion dragons...but she didn’t.

Omg the overboob thing drove me insane but I figured it was just how they wore their dresses back then... hahahhaha

I loved Bridgeton BUT they could of made a bit more effort for the costume’s to make it historically accurate

“You can sense tons of poliesther from afar”

I just finished watching Bridgerton twice: once the normal way, then again once I knew Lady Whistledown's identity so I could pick up on any nuances I missed the first time. PLEASE rip this show apart for me.

I say this to my students all the time (I’m a costume design teacher) that mixing periods is probably the most difficult thing you can do as a costumer. People think mixing modern aesthetic and historic shapes is easy, or even mixing multiple periods. It is oh so very not! I’ve seen some truly wretched Elizabethan dramas wheee the costumer tried to mix periods, for some reason that era of costuming makes people think they should think outside the box. Get back inside the box, sometimes, the box can be useful.

I like your output though I'm honestly not sure what about it appeals to me. Not that it's not interesting and well-presented but I have practically no interest in fashion. I guess what I like is the backlash against modern presentism. I would say that I don't think the random distortion effects really add anything to this one (not sure if that's the right term, referring to the ones at 5:57 and 6:48)

Why does all this piss me off so much!?🤣

Featherington dresses should appear after an epilepsy warning...

I can't believe shows like Outlander or Bridgerton are popular. Generally there's so much soft-porn, gratuitous nudity and violence in shows and movies with little substance elsewise. This generation must have the worst taste ever (women anyway).

I literally thought of you within the first minute of watching and I can’t wait to see her drag these costumes

For anyone wondering, hand embroidery takes forever especially when dealing with small details, simpler colour fill can be faster but anything detailed or curving takes awhile. Part of the problem is that you have to kind of find the right spot to pierce through or it looks really weird and can be hard to correct without making it look weird or pulling it back through the hole again and just trying again. That being said in the era of mass manufacturing and cheap clothes its very easy hobby to start because you can get a set of needles for a few dollars and its like 50c for 8 metres of the threads.

14:44 It’s almost as if.... paper aged, better inks are used and color photography appeared 🧐

daaaamn mami got taste doe ahhhahhhahaaaa👅 didn't know you watched Cherdleys and Trevor Wallace!

After watching your channel for a while now, it’s made me hyper aware of historical fashion inaccuracies in tv shows and movies🥲 it’s a blessing and a curse

Respect the drip Karen.

Karolina looks very much like a professional fashion historian

i think they said they made it basically as eye candy, as an escape from the depression of the pandemic. I love it and i think it's exactly what we need right now, to just detach a bit and have some fun

Watching Bridgerton i felt like it was kind of sarcastic in like every way....not even clothing i mean its all not really right and i do think that this was what the producers actually wanted

I watched first scene with corset over naked body and was thinking about it whole show, I mean just WHY

How do you keep your complexion so beautiful. Don't say lighting...Wish you had a P.O. Box. I think you answered my queries on the March 7, video, serves me right for not coming here as much. I love your channel, and your sense of humor esp. Namaste, gotta get out my pom poms, cheerleader time. Barf...chocolate sounds good though. Z.

Another video of yours, March 7, 2021, mentioned this series. Bookworm and music, music, music. So never seen Bridgerton - are those "acid colours" accurate, neon puce, peculiar peach, etc. Now to be fair do you expect authentic "hand woven" ? To me, just want I've seen in few clips,mthe costumes are slightly off- now is that to make the character seem like the "ugly" stepsister, loser? That hot pink dress with the Dollar Store, necklace/ Hawaiian lei! I doubt I will watch it - another Jane Austen spinoff of a spinoff. Never watched, thanks in part to YOU, the most recent remake of Little Women. I was happy with the Winoba Ryder, Susan Saradon one, still want to watch the Elizabeth Taylor one- now that will be interesting, will the mindset of the 1940's influence the costumes of a Jane Austen story. Wow amazing factoid, the slim gowns, vs the court ladies hoop skirts- atrocities is an understatement...Thanks as always for info, inspiration, and a laugh. Namaste, Z. ( I almost always look at the women's costumes more, the men- how accurate are they? and are they dull like most men, 1960's excepted)

I think bridgerton itself is parody of historical things.. I keep asking myself what's going on in this series lol

I appreacte you understand red lipstick. The color is perfect.

you look like a young granma, and i wish to look like you

What made me the most angry about the show was the tropes. Sure, continue allll of the stereotypes every bad period drama has ever reproduced and once again have a tight-lacing corset scene... SIGH :D

Just saying cause I'm probably wrong but if you actually look at paintings of queen charlotte, she actually did stick to what was worn back when she was a kid so I think that's right...idk

These dresses may not be accurate but I would love to wear some of them!!! I think they are super cute😂

Stopped listening after phrase "intervew with the costume designer, whose name I can't pronounce". This is just disrespectful. Wtf.

lets make this very clear its been a huge success the series amongst young people but its not historically accurate in any real way. the accents even the posh ones are modern english with little of the tounge of the english used in victorian times. the music the costumes hardly anything is accurates. its total fantasty but its netflix so thats the deal isnt it

The fact that every other character is not white and they supposedly depict European royal in the 1800s... yeah they don’t need to worry about costume accuracy this is literally a fantasy who took inspiration from the past

yeeeah... I didn't expect much from the series the moment I realized the showmakers had decided for 19th century London to have a strange diverse population which didn't exist at the time, anywhere.

Uwielbiam twoje filmy, mogę dzięki nim uzupełniać swoją wiedzę o modzie co pomaga mi w szyciu sukienek, które nie wyglądają jak wymysł własny, a faktyczne sukienki z danych lat. Dodatkowo dzięki twoim filmom uczę się angielskiego. Uwielbiam Cię oglądać ^^

the costumes in bridgerton compared to probably any jane austen movie are like a twinkie compared to a beautiful little cake at a french bakery.

can you also make a video on historical/ edwardian maternity wear

I love that you get into all of the details of historically accurate clothing. I love historical fashion so these videos are awesome!

I had all the same thoughts when I watched. I'm surprised you were able to leave out Simon's cravat situation. And Daphne weird hair. While show made my eyes twitch, I still will continue to watch. Wish I had locals to have a watch party with so we could all twitch together

People are complaining that karolina is judging a fantasy too much... You realise its fun to analyse right? It is interesting to pick things a part and analyse things. I can also judge frozen even though its not accurate because its fun to compare.

This is only my 3rd video of yours that I have watched, but the first that I actually read your description. I saw the link to "My nudes" and I was actually thinking it would be a photo of your ankle (having just watched your "Common Women's History Month Myths" and yes, I know that was debunked in your video. ) Regardless, I laughed when I saw it. Well played.

Omg please do a whole video on Reign costumes!! I used to love it and seeing that picture just opened my eyes

It’s the tube dresses

Ditched for chocolate at the end, apparently! 🤣

Does anyone have any good shows/movies? Like shows with the same vibe as the 80’s Anne of Green Gables. I’m so tired of modern movies and shows making characters act like 21st century feminists

One of the reason I couldn't keep watching this show is how cheap it all looks. The polyester was too much

I was today years old when i realised that Bridgertones action is set two years later then Pan Tadeusz action and im shook (I chcecked because costumes in 1999 movie seemed somehow familiar in silhouette to the regency era dresses and turnes out for a reason). It`s crazy how different it has always felt to me, like it was completely different time

It’s not meant to be accurate they want the fun magical feel which they couldn’t have done if they limited themselves such as refusing to have people of color on the show or really just having fun with the unrealistic stuff

late to the party, but, my take on the overboob issue is, I suspect, the costume designer trying to make the actress's bodies appear younger and less developed. I looked up the ages of Daphne, Eloise, and Penelope's actresses out of curiosity and two of them are 30+ year old women playing teenagers. Daphne, I suspect, would be in her late teens to make her marriage and sex scenes with Simon less creepy. But Eloise and Penelope are probably mid-teens, if the average age of coming out is an indicator. In the spirit of making them look that young: well-freaking-done. So yeah, my guess is that the costume designer intentionally designed the dresses in an attempt to mask the actress's fully matured bodies, and that, as the characters age and the show progresses, the dresses will magically fit correctly to reflect their blossoming into womanhood. I will say this, though: I hated the jewelry.

Is she the girl that made the video “Jenna Marbles as an edwardian lady”?

I know it’s not meant to be historically correct. It just bothers me that people watch it and think they’re all intellectual because they’re watching a “historical” show

Can I just say :... You look absolutely wonderful ☺❤

Commenting sonmore videos like this show up in my feed 💖

The dresses are butchered. I mean people find the time period aesthetic's charm as it selling point why modernized most of it.

It's the ideas the showrunners have about the show...and sometimes they are stupid ideas. I HATED this show. But then, I usually hate fanfic, which is what this is. And far from aesthetically pleasing, the costumes were fugly.

Your earrings and giving me so much life!

I do love Karolinas Hair this video ♥️♥️

I watched 3 minutes of the first episode and waited for this exact video from you 😂

Such a shame this series lacked on realistic details.

Yes! Deffinetly a romance fantasy! I have read a lot of mangas&mahwas in online like this story

I kind of don't mind when movies aren't completely historically accurate. it's nice when they take creative liberty on the clothing. but they didn't do a great job here. still an entertaining enough show.

That is one of the reasons I don't like that show, the costumes bother me. It's like a cheesy cheapened version of Pride and Prejudice or that show about King Arthur and Camelot with rock music blaring and people acting like they are in 2020 Los Angeles. Just NO. Doesn't work for me.

I don’t know. Based on Queen Elizabeth II, the queen can wear the same outfit for like 70 years. “Just this x100 thank you.”

This is a waste of time bc the show isn’t SUPPOSED to be accurate. They just had fun with it.

I literally came here because Mrs Featherington's dress silhouette was making me crazy and i just needed someone to tell me that I wasn't crazy...and that the silhouette is. Thank you. I will now move on.

I think with Penelope's mom, her atrocious dress shape might have been to let the viewer know that she has terrible taste. I think that's a main point about her character in the books and I think it's lightly touched on in one of the episodes.

Elephant in the room: in the attempt to be PC they overemphasized the number and role of Blacks in that era and location.

Bridgerton is kind of like Emily in Paris. Nobody should ever believe that any of it would actually happen. It's what Americans fantasize about when thinking about Europe. Just sick back, turn off all the knowledge you have and enjoy it

OMG - fantasy!!! The ethnicities were not accurate. The language was not accurate. The the way people behaved were not accurate. Why would the costumes be historically accurate?!?! This is a fluffy fantasy based on some romance novels. 🙄The costumes were fun and looked cool. Calm down! Criticise something that is actually meant to be accurate.

Szkoda że nie ma polskich napisów ;(

Honestly it’s the Pride and Prejudice//Gossip Girl love child we all needed.

am i interested in fashion? no. did i watch the whole video? yes.

Stop having nonsensical blogs and debates about Historical Accuracy and colour blind casting about "FANTASY FICTION" movies, there were no Fire breading Dragons or Dragon princess ever on earth, yet there were in Game of Thrones because it was a "FANTASY FICTION" movie just like BRIDGERTON , if you want Historical Accuracy do not watch "FANTASY FICTION" movies that came from fiction novels or books like Bridgerton, Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Peter Pan, Harry Potter, beauty and the beast, Game of Thrones i think you got my point they are all fantasy fiction movies, watch "A united Kingdom, 12 years of Slavery, the green book, roots, and many other none fictional movies if you looking for Historical Accuracy those are the movies worthy of that kind of debate, SMH

Where did they relieve themselves once at the never ending balls? Did they have ladies maids to help them once there?

and also she is like o this is not accurate im so smart fuck off just go and make some clothes no one cares about all your knowlege