- Hello, and welcome back to this particular
display of annual nonsense wherein we spend a Debatably
Inordinate amount of time ranking historical dramas
based on the historical, I don't like to use the word accuracy, but for the sake of understanding, "accuracy" of the clothes. I know a lot of you
love historical dramas, I love historical dramas too, but as much fun as shows like
"Bridgerton" are to look at, they are not necessarily
the best representation of what people in the
past actually looked like, dressed like, behaved like,
and a lot of the times these historical dramas
end up running the risk of putting these mental
images in our heads that this is what people of the
past were actually like, when in reality this is not at all what the past looked like. We are today completely at the mercy of the evidence that survives to us today. So the objective of today's
tier ranking exercise is less to roast film costumes for being "historically accurate", which is a completely
unattainable level of unreality. Some of these shows do
a really great job of at least building a hypothesis of what the past might have looked like. Other shows on the other
hand, favor artistic design, modern aesthetic choices for the sake of social commentary, et cetera, at the expense of the
actual historical evidence that exists to us. And they might be fantastic shows, great intriguing stories,
fantastic performances, but are not necessarily to be believed as representations of history. And that is the sort
of structural framework that we are hoping to provide today for all of 2021s period costume
film and TV show releases. So to briefly go over our tier criteria, we have first on the
list, top of the tier, 10 out of 10, chef's kiss,
Basically Time Travel. The silhouettes are on point,
the materials are on point. They consulted so much historical evidence that this could be a
pretty decent hypothesis of what these clothes
looked like in real life. Gets the Job Done is when
the silhouettes are good, the materials are good, it doesn't pull you out
of the realm of history at any point of the show. There might be one or
two little anachronisms that either are made
for budgetary purposes or it's a very niche detail
of history, things happened. They Tried is when clearly
they are making an effort. They looked at some historical evidence, but there are a lot of modern concession. Modern hairstyles, modern makeup, some elements of the dress cutting that isn't quite as they would
have done it historically that does pull you out just a little bit. It was a Design Choice(tm). This is a little bit deceiving that it's in this category,
it is not any lesser or better than any of
the other categories, but it's just, they
acknowledged the history, then they turned to the other
way, and started walking. It's meant to be something
artistic, something fantasy. So we don't wanna take points off for deliberately not being historical where they weren't trying to be historical in the first place. (beautiful example of grimace face) Grimace face is for, you
might have to go on Google to look up what period
this piece is set in. They're not trying to be artistic, and they're not fantasy and this section also includes titles that are outright offensive
or racist in their costuming. We have 47 titles this year. So buckle up, get yourself
some tea and a snack because we are about to go on a whole time traveling expedition starting from ancientness and going all the way up to around abouts 1915. I have brought in a
couple of guest rankers who will come on and assess
and subsequently rank the titles that I personally
am not in a position to properly judge. So beginning our journey today
in General Ancient Period, we have our first title "Word of Honor". - So, "Word of Honor" it belongs to this popular Chinese genre called wǔ xiá, which can be loosely translated
into "martial arts legend". Many of these shows,
including "Word of Honor" are not supposed to be historical, it's just vaguely set in the "past". So the costumes also have this
timeless period look to them. You can see the traditional-ish cross body's lapel and
the very wide sleeves, but the silhouette, the design, color, texture and details are all
just modern reimagination. This drama genre was extremely popular in Hong Kong from the '70s to the '90s. So the costumes were always a mixture of traditional Chinese
style, Chinese opera, modern fashion trends, and
some Japanese elements in there 'cause I guess people
thought it was close enough, but it is a fantasy show and the costumes look
pretty good on the actors, so I'm just going to put it in It was a Design Choice. - Season two of the "Beforeigners" which is next on our list, because this does theoretically
take place in the present, but involves people from Stone Age and Viking up through 19th century time traveling up into the present. - It's like a fantasy
comedy-ish drama thing. So I tried to leave my
snark at home a little bit. Yeah, I've Googled some of the characters so I could try and figure
out where they were all from. The woman who's meant to be a Viking, like a shield-maiden, I couldn't figure that
out from the costume. It was like, "Oh, she's got
one side of her head shaved, "and is wearing like D&D
style studded leather armor." - D&D as research material does sound fun but isn't exactly the best
representation of history. - It's not good. (Jimmy clears throat) Holy it's not good. There's a beardy guy with a mail shirt on, which is, I think, in terms
of the early medieval people like the Viking people, that is the best element of it is that he is wearing chainmail. It's just boring now seeing people, especially somewhere where this culture was dominant for a time,
just falling into the trope and just going, "Screw it,
leather, shave the head". I am disappointed. One guy has got a jacket that's got beads, and I think he's got
a nicely trimmed beard and that kind of thing. And he's wearing a douche
neck t-shirt underneath it that just pretty much
comes down to his rib cage. That's not a medieval thing really, that's like a basic conceptual
misunderstanding of how the medieval period
and its clothing works. They Tried, maybe they tried,
they didn't try screw it. No It was a Design Choice. - We have season one of "Domina", which follows the life of Livia Drusilla, the wife of Augustus
Caesar in ancient Rome approximately 40 BCE to
about 14 AD, so ancient Rome. - "Domina". (Jimmy chuckles) My body is prepared. (Jimmy laughs) Some of it's not bad. All the men's wear is kind of okay-ish, and a lot of the women's
wear is just nonsense. It's identifiably Roman from, it's like 50 or 60 years
ago when everybody thought that Romans just wore
red tunics and leather, but at least they're wearing tunics. They've got the wrist braces, and I haven't found a single picture from the Roman empire of
those leather wrist things. But everybody's wearing leather. Italy's hot, and you get
sweaty when you wear leather, so it's a bit weird. Everyone's always wearing
the molded leather, muscly, "look at my nipples" armor. I've seen worse. But at least they're giving the senators their two purple stripes. A lot of Roman men in this period, the conservative side would
think that long tunics, and long sleeve tunics
are very effeminate, so the fact that some of these Roman men are wearing floor length tunics would be notably improper. They look like they've just won a world heavyweight championship. Put the belt on and then be like, "Crap, I've got to put my bedsheets on." That's not how a toga works, that's never been how togas work. I like that everyone's,
people are wearing purple, people are in colors and bright clothing. They've put the men in
dresses and it's okay. I've seen worse. It Gets the Job Done I guess. It's better than a lot. It's an improvement on others. - "Britannia" season three. So this is hypothetically set in 43 AD in Roman-conquered Britain. - Oh where to begin, Bernadette?? All of the Roman clothing is garbage. All of the Britain clothing is garbage or some of this is outright racist. Druids with dreadlocks and definitely Native American head dresses, and the guy who's literally
painted his face green. Everything about the costuming in the show is just dreadful and offensive. Aulus Plautius, who is a
prominent Roman politician and well-regarded general is just dressed in his black bondage armor. For some reason he's got a
gold breastplate at one point. One of the characters, Kate, has made up runes tattooed on her face, that obviously meant to look like Viking age Futhark runes. They're not, they're just
nonsense, they're nothing. The tight trousers that
are just skinny jeans and like all the Roman
soldiers wearing leather armor, they were metal because metal is good at stopping swords from murderising you. It's awful. Everything about it makes me sad. The only good piece of costuming is, Aulus's son at one point is wearing what looks like a nice linen tunic, but then he gets cannibalized so. - [Bernadette] For the sake of the video, can you put this on the tier list. (Jimmy exclaims) - That's it. - [Bernadette] Well I
think, that sums it up. - [Jimmy] I think I die. - "The Green Knight" is an interesting sort of retelling of the Arthurian story of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Given that Arthurian legend is kind of theoretically supposed
to be sixth century, I think I already know the answer but let's see how we do with this. - A lot of the background
artists have semi-decent stuff, but then all the principal cast, are just dressed in
complete fantasy garbage. Some of the background guys are wearing woolen caps and coifs
and mantles and tunics, and cloaks that just looked like practical medieval clothing, and then Gawain has his weird velvet interlocking textured tunic, and then all of the
Knights of the Round Table just looked like samurai, and they've all just got man buns, such a weird choice. Gawain has a lovely
yellow cloak that I want. It's complete nonsense, but I want one. It just looks like unironed silk, a lot of the stuff that they're using, and then like a sausage hair
thing on someone's head. It's like giant Star
Wars head sausage things. King Arthur just looks like they found him drinking turps underneath a flyover somewhere and like shoved him in a costume and plunked him on a throne and were like, "You're King Arthur." And he was like, "I am
King Arthur though." And he can't pronounce Gawain's name chronically throughout the entire film. All of the design choices in
this movie are so bizarre. At least he's wearing
chain mail at one point. It's not good chain mail,
doesn't have sleeves. Weird cloak is still there, and there's like fantasy double belts, and very, very, very,
very, very low cut dresses. It's just fantasy. It's literally, it was a design choice because it couldn't possibly argue that it's based on history. It was a design choice, but it's a design choice
that six or 700 years ago you probably would have
been killed for so. Have fun! - Our first K-drama on this year's list is "River Where The Moon Rises", which takes place in
roughly sixth century Korea. - It is set in the Goguryeo period kingdom of the three kingdoms period. A lot of it was influenced
in terms of clothing by whatever their ruling
dynasty in China was. The battle scenes armor, I can see where they got
the inspiration from. He has this sort of medieval
looking smock thing. I've not seen such a garment. Who's to say there are
no existing examples of garments from this period
beyond murals and tombs. There are a few very glaring things. The baby doll dress open completely. There's just some layering
things in the Royal wear. Hair wise, it was still
a very strong convention. Men had their hair in their
top knots, the Sangtu, and women had basically chignons. Either low at the base
of the neck or on top. If you're unmarried, both men and women, long braid with a daenggi
ribbon in the back. I see a lot of free flowing hair. There is hair flying everywhere. There would have been a lot more hats. Goguryeo wore hats with
feathers, huge feathers. Definitely bright
garments, orange and red, and not as bright as what I see in this, but they would have large
blocks of contrasting trim. So that I see in certain places, I think it's much more of a design choice where you see the parameters
of what's happening, of what happened in history, but choosing to do X, Y, and Z. - We have another Chinese series on our list called "The
Sword And The Brocade", which is set vaguely
in Ming Dynasty China. - So the first problem with this show is that it's claimed to be
set in the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty
expands from 1368 to 1644, and as one would expect, fashion changed a lot within 300 years. And this show didn't
even stick to 300 years 'cause they also mixed in some Qing Dynasty elements in there. You can also tell that the designer is trying to cater to the
current beauty standard in China because the costumes
also seem quite tight, especially on the waist, which is really the exact opposite of the Ming Dynasty silhouette that covers up all your curves. I think this is a problem with pretty much all historical drama. Their hair and makeup
look hideously modern. So I'm going to put it in the bottom tier with the grimace face. - So "The Last Duel", which is the next title on our list takes place around 14th-century France with the duel-- the last one-- taking place in 1386 specifically. The first thing that I noticed was the rather disappointing
lack of veils on women, which in this period, women are almost always
in artwork in veils, especially married women. Some of the men's wear is almost Tudor, like 200 years later than
when the story takes place. Maybe it is just slightly
Joffreycore, I don't know. By this period, some plate mail was starting to become a thing, but it wasn't this all-encompassing
full body plate mail until like the 16th and 17th centuries, and even then it was mostly ceremonial, people aren't charging into
battle in full plate mail. I do appreciate the wearing of a shift, it does weirdly at some point, look as if she's wearing a pair of stays. Corsetry, as far as the
evidence that we have, was not a thing in this
14th century period. Women were wearing their
lace up kirtles tightly, just to give them a bit of bust support, but we have no surviving evidence of any sort of corsets or stays surviving from the 14th century. This hairstyle is a thing, roughly, this sort of double braids
put on top of the head. So applause for that but
again, where is the veil? Why isn't she wearing a veil? I'm gonna put this in They Tried, because they, they did give it a go. It isn't the worst
depiction of medieval dress that I have seen. Our next K drama selection
on the list today takes place in Joseon Korea, and is called "The King's Affection". - And this is set in the Joseon period, 1392 to technically like 1897, but the Joseon period,
this is a made up dynasty. This is a little bit better. The Geumbak chain, the gold foil leafing
design on the shoulders, back at that time it was
only for royal families. If you are not the king
or in the royal household, that does not go on your body. The way it was for centuries. Some blatant fabric
choices, which I don't, budget, I get it, just
some very modern choices. The Jolitmal, for the chest binding, that is actually a true thing. They would have used
cotton, pongee or pongee. It's a very soft silk, but that would be the alternative for women's undergarments, at least at this high ranking of station. Now the little boys' shoes, the green, that is actually accurate. There's actual plausibility
about his outfit, specifically being a young boy with a vest called a Jeonbok. His layering is right. For the most part, I didn't have as many
problems when they were kids, (Yang chuckles) as when they jumped forward in time. I think the most glaring
thing in this is the shoes. There are legit just
treads and rubber soles or not historical looking soles. Traditionally, it's layers of leather and paper and hemp and such. I can forgive if the tops
weren't the right length or maybe color for the maid
wasn't the exact for that year, because this is a, who knows in a span of
like three centuries. So I would get this in between a two and three
but closer to a tier two, Gets The Job Done. Pretty good. - Ok. So it looks like we are ending
up with a fairly even split. We have yet to find a 10 out of 10, chef's kiss example of time travel though. "Leonardo" is a TV show which takes place in the late 15th century
renaissance Italy, and is about Leonardo da Vinci. - For "Leonardo", which centers a story in the
life of Leonardo da Vinci, who was born in 1452, he died in 1519, so we're talking late
15th, early 16th century, in the city states of Milano
and Firenze and Venezia. Effort was clearly made because they did look at some paintings, and they based some of the female, and even some of the male
silhouettes on those paintings, but they deviated from almost everything in a way that kind of pulled you right out of the time and place. The materials, the metal
all over the bodice. The servants actually have a better, more period accurate look
than the main characters because the main character, sometimes they're trying
to make a statement, and they're using some symbolism that they feel is important,
like fur in weird places to show that they're rich, where fur would not have really been shown a lot on the outside, it would have been more
inside their clothing. If you look at Ginevra de'Benci, you get a little bit of
what her painting looks like if you look at Beatrice d'Este. They did look at some of her portraits, so that's good but I still,
they just did too much. They tried. I think they tried is a fair, maybe even giving them too much credit 'cause some of the things that I saw, the deviations were just
really, really wrong. - So earlier this year there was released on
channel five here in the UK, a series called "Anne Boleyn" which we only have one very
potato quality trailer of this. It seems to be nowhere, not even on the streaming site on which the original show was streaming. So it is rather unfortunate
but from what we can see, the men seem to be pretty good. There is a nice 10 out of 10 shirt with a ruff on the collar attached to it, which is great especially for
this mid-16th-century period. The silhouettes do look good, they seem to have either pinned or hooked the right side
of this bodice into place, and we always love to see an attempt at historical costume actually functioning like real period clothes
and not with modern rigging. I also love the little piecing
at the shoulder straps, that is really cool. They did get the necklace, so clearly they at least
looked at her painting. Historically, these Tudor gowns were super tightly fitting, super smooth, super flat. There seems to be a lot of general ease left in these bodices, which
would not have been a thing especially for super, super fashionable nobility like Anne Boleyn. So I'm gonna put this in They Tried. "The Jungle Cruise" is
set primarily in 1916 but has a flashback to 1556. The main woman is from London, and she travels to the Amazon
to do research and stuff. A number of comments about this one. First of all, she looks to be wearing
a completely modern bra, this is also a Heckin Modern Blouse. The hair and makeup are
both completely modern. This suit is actually quite good. It's very Edwardian in style. She's got those super
high-waisted trousers with the short waistcoat which is a little detail
that often is got wrong. So that I appreciate,
I do appreciate that. His trousers on the other hand, and this might just be an actor choice considering the costume team at least did get this right in
other parts of the film, but his trousers are entirely
too short in the waist, they're very modern. He's living in the 20th century, which is actually ahead of fashion by about a hundred years. The 1550 section is actually really good. There is the little
smocking detail on his shirt which is 10 out of 10. Smocking styles on
shirts got really intense by the middle of the 16th century, and there was all sorts
of different patterns and configurations to do smocking, so good for the 16th century. That, I'm gonna put this in They Tried. They were clearly, some
historical evidence was acknowledged, but there were perhaps budgetary things being like "no <3" and so don't use this for historical reference, but they gave it a go. "The Song of Youth" is
yet another Chinese drama that takes place in the Ming Dynasty. - "Song of The Youth" has the same problem as "The Sword And The Brocade", which is that it's set
broadly in the Ming Dynasty so everything is just a
mishmash of different styles from both Ming and Qing Dynasty. The costume designer also
didn't do much research into the dress code for
different social classes, so sometimes they would
make weird fashion choices like putting servants
clothing on the rich ladies. And again, the hair and makeup are not quite from the period. I'm not an expert on hairstyle, but from the few articles I've read, the hairstyle is pretty
much half Qing dynasty and half modern re-imagination. I have a very strong
opinion about this show because the production team,
they kept bragging about the historical accuracy and
how much research they've done for this show. So even though the
costumes look all right, and the color palette and texture do look visually pleasing on screen, I'm going to give it to maybe They Tried just for those false advertisement. - So "A Discovery of Witches" season two, this one is based off of a novel but I think it's only
season two that involves them time traveling back
into the Elizabethan period. A little bit of anachronism
could be excusable, however, there is way more than a little bit of
anachronism in this show. Ok. So some of the men's
doublets are pretty good. This one man's doublet, this
is the lead man's doublet, it's straight out of an example
in the museum of London, so 10 out of 10, we love to see it. The bodice patterns on
some of the ladies' dresses are not cut correctly. The lace that is used
on a lot of the dresses are not right to the period. The intricacy of the laces and the skill involved in the lace making in these periods is so extensive that, lace was like A Thing that
wealthy people showed off. Finding lace that is really good to the 16th and 17th centuries, is really difficult to do. So I will give a bit of
forgiveness for that. There is naturally the expected metal eyelets and cross
lacing as we see profusely in period dramas. These instead would be spiral laced and the eyelets would have
been done by hand in thread. They do get epic points though for these lab coats that they wear, which there's no evidence that these were, these loose gowns were
ever worn as lab coats. However, it is a really
clever and cool use of actual surviving historical garments to serve a very specific
plot point within the story. I think that's really clever. There's this pair of bodies that she wears that is straight out of Norah Waugh it is straight pulled out of an extant pair of bodies that existed from this period so, awesome. So pretty decent
silhouettes in some cases, but covered in modern sequin trimming, modern makeup, extremely modern hair. I'm genuinely tied between They Tried, and that. Because they did give
it a go but it did not, it did not get there. I'm gonna put it, I'm gonna put it in, (Bernadette exclaims) but applause for those
occasional moments that they had. Those were some really great moments. "Kingdom Ashin of The North"
is a Korean zombie thriller set in Circa 1600. - From what context
clues they're giving me, this is Joseon Dynasty. When you look at the
costuming of this show you see the texture in
it and that is what, (Yang exclaims) what I love. When you can see weave of fabric. This is a breadth of cold zombie air. This sort of nomadic tribal wear, who's to say that certain style or that certain effect didn't exist because these are all nomadic tribes making their own wear, but silhouette wise, pretty damn accurate. That sort of slopey pointed toe, that and with the ankle wraps, that is a common historical idea. There is her top where it's got an effect and it looks like leather, they did use leather
for-- a common interfacing in Korea was Hanji, the mulberry paper. There's one specific piece, it's this metal cross body business thing, I think a lot of the times
with the dark villains, a lot of things are
taken liberties with now. Not to say it's not within the
realm of could be possible, there's not a specific
saying yes, no, yes, no, but it is pretty damn close. Maybe they wouldn't have
paired that color with that, but layering is right, shoes are pretty right, clothes are pretty right. I would give this a really good two. This, aesthetic wise and just visually, is one of the more realistic examples. Very good job. - Set in 17th century Tuscany, our next title is "Benedetta", which is about the story of
existing nun Benedetta Carlini. This specifically takes
place within the realm of monastic dress, which
I know nothing about. - They did really a good job. It wasn't easy, it wasn't easy at all. We don't know exactly
what she would have worn. There is a picture, and that picture is taken from a painting from Giovanni di Paolo,
and they had to wear, according to these rules, a white cassock, I think it's called, it's a sort of a tunic, a veil, maybe even better, two veils. So a white one and a black one, it's called scapular I think in English, "scapolare" in Italiano. And it had to be white. So we'll talk about that
because it's black in the movie, and I think it is because
in the cover of the book, saw in his Giovanni di Paolo image, he used these kinds of black scapular. The costume they made is something that she could have worn. You can see that they
used organic materials, so linen and wool. You can clearly see wool on the veil of Benedetta in a frame, so it's really marvelous. (Vittoria chuckles) Also you can see hand stitches. - [Bernadette] Oh my God. - Yeah, yeah, it's really
just... (chef's kiss) (both laugh) I think the priest should have
been depicted with a beard, and also he would have worn a tricorne so that it's really on point. We can say that it's basically time travel because the details are so well done. It was really a good job or maybe I am too generous, I don't know. (Vittoria chuckles) - "Coven of Sisters" is set in 1609 in the Basque country region of Spain. - I'm blank. I'm going to start with the men's costumes because they were probably
the most accurate ones. There was a huge movement of religious humility and seriousness. The royal color (indistinct) black. Black was the color to where it were like any Spanish Royal or
any Spanish random guy that wanted to look expensive,
fancy and elegant AF. I had four reference key
for some of their ruffles that they were that completely fine. They referenced some
of the more traditional ruffle collar and now with
the elephant in the room, literally the elephant in the room, historically accurate in some way? The phallic elephant trunk headdress, it's a very specific date, they have to know it's
from this exact period. It's a very specific
berg nice little shape today in the Basque region. When it comes to the rest of the cast, like all of the young girls. At first one when I saw the movie, I was thinking, "what are these?" But I think this specific piece is the thing that represents the costumes they finally
chose for the movie and for this rural outcast
witchy vibes girls. Even this drop sleave, half sleeve, this rounded, straight cut sleeves, they were also accurate. So why are these undergarments, the cleanest, the fanciest, the most perfect romantic
undergarments I've ever see. I was looking at these
crisscrossed spiral way of lacing and I was thinking, there's
no way you could put this on. This is on her forever. The fact that this unruly
witches has their hair down, doesn't bother me because
they are the witches, right? I don't want a see her
wrapped in some phallic but weird misshapen teacup
thing on their heads. Even though they did the work and they put in the effort
to make these costumes, they tried because they really tried and some of the costumes are great, and I understand that they did not try to portray them as historically perfect, and I think it's not the point they were trying to get. Overall, pretty great. - We have the third part in a trilogy, only this third part of which
involves a flashback to 1666. This, incidentally, is
called "Fear Street: 1666". It started off pretty good,
the silhouettes are decent. The background characters are really good. Surprisingly good. There were some really good details, these clusters of two and three
or four buttons spaced out is a detail that appears
quite occasionally, I guess, in late 16th and 17th
century dress, so, cool. I love that they did that. Progressively, we got more
and more and more modern, crepey sleeves, drapey
chemises, metal eyelets, of course, cross lacing,
stays without chemises, stays in the 17th century tended to be worn as outer garments, so it's not really
shocking that these people are dancing and having
their, I don't know, scandalous evening activity in their stay, that would have just been
their every day garments. So the men's wear is substantially better than the women's wear, but it's not as bad as
"Discovery of Witches" because they did stick a bit more to the- I'm gonna put it in
They Tried, they tried. "The Cook of Castamar", which
has set in 1720s in Madrid. Not a whole lot, surprisingly, of documentation survives specifically from this early-18th-century period. So I was really interested to see a lot of carry over of
styles from the 17th century, which especially those wide
off the shoulder gowns, which are distinctly mid-17th-century. The fabric is maybe
Victorian at best though. They are doing the thing
where they're pushing the women's breasts way up to their chins which actually is not a thing. Actually in this period, the stays are constructed with
bode rails across the front, either out of very thick pieces of baleen or out of iron, that is basically just shaped to be this outward curving rail that comes across the
front, because guess what? People really loved to be
able to breathe in their stays when they were wearing them, and when you really constrict this upper part of your body here, you're constricting your lungs, and nobody really wants that. So (sighs) the hairstyles are not right. (Bernadette chuckles) Where is the powder? This is literally how
people kept their hair clean in this period. You can see that these
costumes are trying. She has got at one point
some cartridge pleating at the back of the sleeve, which is a very 17th century thing to do, but the 17th century pattern cutting for armscyes cuts way into
the back of the shoulders, and that that actually serves to pull your shoulders way back like this, as was the fashionable thing to do. The men's wear is pretty good. We have the long waistcoats
and the big cuffs on the coats and the looser fitting coats, which is definitely a thing
in the earlier 18th century. So cool, great. I mean, here's an entire gala full of late 18th century dresses. They've all got those long,
tight fitting sleeves, they've all got back-heavy
rumps under their skirts, the rump skirt support. Anyway, historical details are just strewn across the century. I'm gonna put this in They Tried. Next up we have season two of "The Great", which was released just a
couple of weeks ago this year. This is a sort of jaunty fantasy take on Catherine the Great of
Russia in the 1750s and '60s. Wide sleeved cuffs and big frills, cuff frills are very much
in favor in this period. Not this embroidery though. There is a running theme
throughout this series that the fabrics are just not
bothering to be 18th century. This might be a zipper. The silhouettes generally
aren't the worst. Oh yeah, she's got her
panniers far too low, and it kind of almost looks like she's wearing a 19th century crinoline, but like this spiral
lacing stomacher style is something that I have
seen on extant stays. Maybe not this fabric but it's fantasy. They see the history, but
they don't really care. I'm gonna put this in
It Was A Design Choice. So that brings us up to the
end of the 18th century, which is where we shall stop with the tier ranking for today, but do join us at this time tomorrow wherein we shall be covering the entirety of the 19th
century, which tends to be quite a favorite within
the realm of period drama. So we have a lot to cover in that one, and I shall hopefully
see you in the next one. I was gonna say tomorrow,
but time is not linear in the general scheme of the internet.
