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- Hi, I'm Roz Ebbutt
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and I'm the costume
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designer on Victoria.
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This dress I have
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here is a state dress
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which is for Victoria which we
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use for the christening
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of the eldest child, Princess Victoria.
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And also, then we can use again
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for special state occasions.
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This dress is made so that it
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can accommodate the garter ribbon,
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the garter star, and the actual garter.
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When the Order of the Garter was instituted
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it was obviously, it was around a leg.
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But then when Victoria
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came to the throne
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obviously women's legs
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weren't shown and so she evolved a technique
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of putting the garter 'round the sleeve of her dress.
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Then the garter sash goes 'round
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always on the left shoulder to the right hip.
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It's the only ribbon that does that.
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And from it would hang
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what's known as the George,
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a little image of St. George slaying the dragon.
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And then the Garter Star pins on her dress here.
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That is a sort of very formal royal
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part of their clothing.
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This is our Buckingham Palace
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livery that all of
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the Buckingham Palace footmen wear.
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And in fact today,
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the liveries in Buckingham Palace
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are not dissimilar to this.
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We had a whole lot new ones
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made this year so that everything
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looks really perfect for the long scenes
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in the corridors of Buckingham Palace
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and the big reception scenes.
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We also have here Buckingham Palace valets.
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The chefs, the kitchen porters,
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and then here on the stand
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we have an example of a Hussar costume
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from the 11th Hussars,
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very similar to the one that Prince Albert wore
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when he was Commander of the 11th Hussars.
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And I also had a whole set made
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of the troopers so that they could wear
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on horseback for a parade scene.
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So we've established a whole
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new regiment of soldiers.
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And here we
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have a dress that was made new
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for the series for Jenna Coleman, Victoria
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and this was for a special fancy dress ball
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with a Plantagenet theme.
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And also the idea was
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that everything was supposed to be made
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of Spitalfields silks.
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My dressmaker who made this
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we used double layers of sort
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of see-through embroidered fabric.
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And some other embroidered fabric
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and then pretend ermine here.
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This beading here was actually
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a bracelet which we sort of deconstructed
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and spread out to look like
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real jewels on her stomacher.
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And all of the designs of the ball
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Victoria was helped
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by a man called J.R. Planche who
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was actually one of the very first
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historians of costume
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and he wrote one of the very first books about it.
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And it's still in print.
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And there's a famous painting of her and Prince Albert
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in their costumes.
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So here we have some royal coachmen,
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we have the clerk of the House of Commons,
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the speakers gown.
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It's been very interesting in this series that we've had
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a multitude of different places,
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different stories, different facets of society.
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It makes a really fabulous show to be working on.