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  • - So in an effort to be slightly more efficient

  • in all of the costume reviews that you seem to want me to do

  • we're going to do a little 2020 year wrap-up

  • of all the period dramas that have been released this year.

  • And just to make things a little bit more exciting

  • I have decided that we are going to be ranking

  • these period dramas on a scale of historical accuracy.

  • I have made up a chart.

  • I have tons of notes,

  • and we're about to rank these films and TV shows

  • on a scale of "they tried :/" to *chef's kiss*.

  • So I guess I should kind of clarify my tiers here.

  • *Chef's kiss* is obviously like near perfection.

  • There's a combination of silhouette

  • that obviously looks convincing to the period.

  • The materials that they use are appropriate as well as

  • presence of tiny details, such as seams or stitching details

  • or embroidery things that you can just

  • tell that the designer did their research

  • in order to find out those little things.

  • Pretty good is the silhouette is probably convincing enough.

  • There may or may not be a couple of seams

  • that look a little bit obviously modern

  • but we can let those pass

  • because generally the costumes themselves

  • don't pull us out of the realm

  • of the historical context of the story.

  • It was a Design Choice(tm).

  • This category is sort of reserved

  • for the element of fantasy.

  • So I'm not about to allow any of these historical dramas

  • to sort of cop out on "but this was a directorial vision".

  • Yes, that's fair,

  • if this is fantasy and it's not actually dealing with

  • actual historical events, actual historical figures,

  • or is meant to have been set in an actual period of history.

  • If they're going to a fantasy realm,

  • it's some alternate universe thing,

  • OK, fair.

  • It was a Design Choice.

  • There is a separate category for blasphemous hair and makeup

  • because the actual bane of my existence

  • there are several instances in which the costumes

  • are actually pretty good

  • but the entire convincing-ness of the world

  • of the historical film or show is just shattered.

  • You cannot fully immerse yourself

  • into the realm of the historical period

  • because you are constantly being pulled out

  • by the fact that her lip shade is like not quite right.

  • And also why is she wearing bronzer?

  • And then they tried is obviously like

  • an attempt at history was made,

  • but like not very successfully.

  • We're basically just going to be judging the

  • objective criteria of "is this historically accurate".

  • So without further ado, we are going in order of US release.

  • First on our list is "Little Women",

  • which if you watched my compilation video on

  • the worst costumes of all time, this film was on that list.

  • We've discussed the UGGs,

  • we have discussed the beach waves.

  • This gets a solid... they tried?

  • but were they even trying... remains to be seen

  • but that's gonna live there.

  • Second on our list is "Emma",

  • which once again also made it onto

  • not my worst costume compilation

  • but my best costume compilation.

  • we have already discussed the 10 out of 10

  • near perfection of "Emma", everyone basically looked like

  • they were out of a fashion plate.

  • It was beautifully designed.

  • This gets a chef's kiss.

  • I put Mulan on this list

  • because I think it technically is a period drama.

  • It does take place in fifth or sixth century,

  • Northern China.

  • It's based off of the original ballad of Mulan.

  • So there is historical text to it.

  • There is also a lot of fantasy.

  • So this one is a little bit tricky

  • because my particular realm of studies

  • centers around English and American pre-World war one

  • historical dress.

  • So I can't say that I am very well-educated in the realm

  • of six century Chinese dress, Northern Chinese dress.

  • So I put this one on my list and I was like,

  • I'll do some research.

  • So three hours later, I had only just got up to

  • the general overview of the Tang dynasty.

  • And I was like, oh wow now I understand

  • why historians choose one very specific little pinpoint

  • of history and study that for their entire lives.

  • So personally I am not qualified

  • to deem this historically accurate or not.

  • According to the background research that I did do,

  • I am first and foremost, a little bit disappointed

  • that they didn't hire an actual Chinese designer.

  • And I know, I was watching some criticism

  • from people who actually are more familiar

  • with the cultural details.

  • And one of the main criticisms of this

  • was the fact that they were hiring white designers

  • to do research into Chinese dress

  • and not actually hiring Chinese designers

  • who already have that background knowledge

  • and who can then focus on building a world

  • within the context of those historical foundations.

  • To my untrained eye

  • just based off of the artwork that I was looking at

  • within this time period there does seem to be a lot of

  • bright colorful dress happening, which is so superficial

  • but they certainly did that within this film.

  • The fabrics and materials that they use

  • do seem to be convincing enough in terms of quality.

  • Obviously, I haven't done the depth of research

  • to get to the point where I understand

  • what dyes were available

  • and therefore what colors would have been available

  • and what colors can be worn in what circumstances

  • and with what,

  • but just based off of the research that I did do

  • the silhouettes look pretty okay,

  • the colors look at least having existed within the period.

  • There is definitely an element of fantasy involved.

  • I mean, we are dealing with the realm of witches

  • and people running up vertical walls,

  • which is not... you know... reality.

  • This is also a Disney film.

  • And I know one of the main criticisms

  • of trying to make Disney films historically accurate

  • is that they are Disney films and they are fairytales

  • and they are not historically accurate.

  • Anyway, that is a very long-winded way of saying that.

  • I do think the costume design was--

  • to my very unspecialized eye--

  • the costumes did look pretty okay to me,

  • I'm going to put this in it was a Design Choice.

  • (sigh)

  • I think that is the best that I can do.

  • So next on our list, we have Belgravia, it's a TV series.

  • The beginning is set in 1815,

  • and it sort of goes up through the 1840s.

  • Initially from looking at the promo images of this,

  • I was like, "oh my God". I was actually so excited

  • for the show because

  • obviously the book came out several years ago

  • and I was like, oh yay Julian Fellowes wrote the book.

  • I was like, oh, it's Downton Abbey.

  • So it will maybe be good,

  • but then I saw some promo pics and I was like, wow,

  • this looks extremely modern.

  • I guess the costumes are going to be

  • a Little Bit Questionable,

  • but the costumes were pretty good (sigh).

  • I realized the thing that was throwing me off

  • in the promo images that unfortunately,

  • because sometimes the promo images are done up and shot

  • before the actual thing is shot

  • or they're done separately offset,

  • not within the context of the actual shooting environment.

  • So the promo images don't always reflect

  • the actual costumes. Unfortunately, these kinds of did.

  • The Appallingly modern hair and makeup

  • did carry over into the actual series

  • to the point where like, I can tell that you are definitely

  • from the 21st century

  • and you're putting on a bonnet and a soap frog.

  • So unfortunately this one has to be classified in

  • blasphemous hair and makeup.

  • Next we have the English Game,

  • which is a new Netflix TV series.

  • This one is set in 1879 I believe is when the show begins.

  • Once again, I have not studied the realm of sporting

  • uniforms, so I cannot speak to the accuracy

  • of the football uniforms.

  • So here's the thing within period dramas, there tends to be

  • this overarching phenomenon where the men's wear

  • tends to be pretty much ok.

  • It doesn't change a whole lot from

  • mmh kind of from the beginning of the regency period

  • up to the modern times.

  • The women are overly made up again, the hair and makeup

  • is just... frustrating.

  • But then again, the women in the show are used as props

  • and on flowers anyway.

  • So does it really matter? Probably not!

  • One thing that I did enjoy on this show is that

  • because a lot of the story is spent in uniform

  • on the football field, everyone is kind of dressed the same.

  • They did capitalize on that late Victorian trend

  • of EPIC men's facial hair

  • and sort of extreme and varied men's facial hair,

  • which was extremely clever because I was a bit worried

  • just watching the show

  • that I would not be able to distinguish one white man

  • from the other white man, but they do

  • "Oh yeah, okay, this is the guy with a large beard.

  • This is the guy with a small beard.

  • This is the guy with the little mustache."

  • So I thought that was clever.

  • I have nothing like serious again

  • to complain about these clothes.

  • I'm gonna put this in pretty good.

  • So next we have another Netflix series.

  • This one is called Self-Made.

  • I have to go a little bit hard on this one

  • because this is actually about a real historical figure,

  • Madame CJ Walker,

  • who if you don't know who she is, go Google her.

  • She's like one of my favorite historical figures.

  • She's the first self-made female millionaire

  • in the United States.

  • The show itself is entertaining,

  • it's good.

  • Unfortunately, the clothes are not good.

  • It's supposed to be 1908 but you kind of can't really tell.

  • They're using all sorts of materials,

  • all sorts of laces and weird trimmings.

  • They did not really look period at all.

  • And I have to be a little bit more rigid

  • with the historical accuracy judgment on this

  • because it is not only dealing with actual specific years

  • within history, but also about a specific person.

  • Like the research is out there.

  • I think it may have been deliberate

  • because the way that the editing is done, it is very modern.

  • When I was watching it, I was like, you know what?

  • The only way that I can sort of describe this editing style

  • is TikTok.

  • It feels like TikToK or like YouTube editing

  • not in a bad way

  • because obviously we all find that entertaining, right?

  • But it was definitely different to see that in a TV show.

  • I will say the background characters,

  • a couple of the background characters

  • were actually really good.

  • I presume this is because they made

  • all of the principal characters and those were ~Designed~

  • but the background folk were rented or pulled from stock

  • or something.

  • And therefore there were existing costumes

  • that are a bit closer to history.

  • I will say though, that this show is unique

  • in that though the clothes were not the best,

  • the hair was really good, which obviously it should be

  • because the show is about hair and hair styling.

  • So good job on the hair,

  • but in terms of clothes, I gotta put this in they tried.

  • So next we have Miss Scarlet and the Duke.

  • The costumes were ok...?

  • I did like that spend pretty much the entirety

  • of long periods of time in the same clothes

  • that is very contextually accurate in that,

  • yeah people don't change their clothes.

  • Well, they changed their under things everyday

  • but you have sort of a set number of outfits that are yours.

  • And because clothing is expensive

  • you don't wear a new outfit every day necessarily

  • unless you're supremely wealthy.

  • I was a bit disappointed by the silhouettes of the clothes.

  • They at least seem to be wearing corsets, properly

  • under structured.

  • But I don't know what year specifically

  • this is supposed to be

  • I'm getting like 1891 from it

  • just based on the sleeve shapes, but a little undefined.

  • They haven't got quite the right like padding situation to

  • just... like that Victorian, late Victorian/

  • early Edwardian turn of the century silhouette

  • like you can just tell when it's right

  • and you can just tell when it's not right.

  • That's all to do with the padding.

  • And I don't think that they did that in this show.

  • The unforgivable thing within this show is once again

  • the hair and makeup, which was appalling.

  • So this one gets classified into

  • blasphemous here and makeup.

  • Next we have The Great.

  • So I had heard not the best things about the clothes

  • going into this, that it was not historically accurate

  • but I was actually pleasantly surprised by it.

  • I thought the silhouettes were good.

  • They were wearing proper undergarments,

  • so everyone was sort of positioned correctly

  • apart from the first episode,

  • which had some major fit issues with the gowns,

  • the clothes fit well, looked decent enough.

  • I was about to classify this into stupid hair and makeup

  • because after watching the first episode,

  • I was like "why does everyone have their hair down?

  • And like pulled up into that half ponytail

  • that everyone thinks is a historical thing for some reason,

  • but is not!"

  • But after the first episode, they got their act together

  • with the hair and they actually started putting it

  • up and doing 18th century rolls and stuff

  • and it was fine.

  • So I think there was just a little bit of a shift

  • in the design process

  • between the first episode and the rest of the episodes.

  • Some of the materials are questionable.

  • Some of the trimmings are not quite 18th century.

  • Some of the outfits are literally unidentifiable

  • as something from the 18th century

  • and are just completely modern.

  • I'll put this in pretty good

  • because it doesn't have the fantasy element

  • to classify it as a design choice,

  • but it's not as bad as they tried.

  • Ok, it'll live in pretty good.

  • Next we have the Alienist, which takes place in 1897,

  • not that you would know it.

  • The clothes are kind of meh

  • they're like Neo Victorian.

  • It's like someone went to a high street

  • and just pulled a bunch of blouses

  • that had that Victorian flare

  • and said "let's put this in a very serious crime drama set

  • in the Victorian--"

  • It's not Victorian, this is in America!

  • In the late 19th century hair and makeup.

  • This is becoming a theme friends.

  • And I think this is a general theme within the entire world

  • of period dramas the hair and makeup is a hot mess.

  • So a lot of period films do this set

  • in, especially in the late Victorian,

  • late 19th century period

  • they do use modern blouses and you can get away with it

  • to an extent, but when you combine those modern blouses

  • with very blatantly modern hair and makeup

  • that just tips the balance

  • from historical to not historically believable.

  • There was actually one point I had to laugh.

  • You know how like modern blouses

  • are very like poly chiffon and very see-through

  • where you can kind of see through the back

  • of one of her blouses

  • and she's wearing completely modern undergarments

  • in that scenario.

  • So this is going into once again

  • blasphemous hair and makeup.

  • So next on our list, we have Radioactive,

  • which once again

  • I'm going to be a little bit hard on this one

  • because it is about a very specific person, Marie Curie

  • Ihis film actually takes place

  • over a span of time, at the beginning starts early 1890s.

  • And then there were some cutaways to like 20th century

  • but I'm not going to comment on that

  • because that is again, beyond my area of knowledge.

  • So the one main thing that I noticed about this

  • is that the sleeve shapes in the beginning are like,

  • yeah early 1890s, 1891 ish

  • but they kind of stay that way throughout the entire film

  • despite the fact that it goes all the way up

  • into like the twenties.

  • The 1890s is a very particularly exciting decade

  • because the shape of the sleeves changed so dramatically,

  • and very specifically from year to year within the decade,

  • I always love watching period things set in the 1890s

  • because you can always tell when the designer knows

  • and is getting those sleeve shapes just right.

  • So like in the 1890, 1891,

  • the sleeves are very sort of quaint Victorian,

  • like what we think of. By 1893, 1895, 1896

  • the sleeves just get really, really big.

  • And then they start to go down again

  • like 1898 round to the turn of the century.

  • In theory, there should have been a little sub story

  • happening with the sleeve shapes in this film.

  • There was not, I will give that a pass because

  • yes not everyone changes their entire wardrobe

  • from year to year or even maybe like

  • every three years or every five years,

  • like, ok, I can let that pass.

  • The hair and makeup was good.

  • It did not take me out of the film.

  • This did also suffer

  • from a little bit of modern blouse syndrome.

  • However, it didn't feel like a bother to me because again

  • the hair and makeup kept us very realistically

  • within this 1890s realm.

  • So I will classify this within pretty good.

  • So next we have a Personal History of David Copperfield

  • which admittedly came out elsewhere in the world

  • like ages ago, but the US got it in 2020.

  • So I'm counting this on his list.

  • The clothes in this were really good.

  • It's sort of 1840s Dickensian.

  • So I don't think they actually specify a year

  • but the clothes did say 1840s to me.

  • And they were actually really good.

  • It does feel very designed.

  • It's very bright.

  • It's very colorful, lots of unusual patterns and textures

  • being used together

  • which wouldn't likely have happened in history.

  • However, I give that a pass because the whole context

  • of the story is that it is deliberately a whimsical tale

  • within the Victorian period,

  • as told by the Victorian character himself

  • in a deliberately whimsical way.

  • I accept that because it's almost as if

  • they've taken Victorian patterns, textures, colors

  • and designed a costume

  • within the realm of the Victorian period.

  • I thought it was really clever.

  • The silhouettes were good.

  • Again, the materials were all believable

  • as having existed in the Victorian period,

  • they all looked natural fiber.

  • The patterns and textures were all believable to the period.

  • There were also lovely little details.

  • There's at one point where the woman bends over

  • and you can see that her dress is closing with dress hooks

  • which always brings me joy.

  • Oh, oh, the men's waistcoats were fantastic.

  • The fabrics used for the waistcoats were just *chef's kiss*.

  • This one goes into *chef's kiss*.

  • The next film that I put on my list is Antebellum.

  • And then I watched it and I realized

  • it's technically not a period drama.

  • It takes place in this like alternate reality "modern times"

  • in which Southern plantations still exist.

  • And people still dress and behave like it is

  • the pre-war 1850s.

  • I kept it on this list because the 1850s clothes

  • were really good.

  • But in theory, it's not technically period

  • but they did definitely pay attention to their seams

  • the shoulder seams on the men's shirts were just--

  • like they did the seams right.

  • I was genuinely really impressed

  • with the way that these clothes were done.

  • Obviously there were some deviations taken.

  • I don't think any of the women were wearing

  • under structures.

  • Even the sort of like silk gown, ladies of the house

  • didn't look like they were wearing corsets some of the time,

  • which is not period.

  • But again, like I also believe that

  • if this were a 21st century situation

  • in reality like they wouldn't be...

  • This one is a bit confusing.

  • But again, I felt like it was worth keeping in

  • just to acknowledge the effort towards historical detail

  • that was made because it was good.

  • So this one is going into it was a design choice

  • because obviously this is within

  • a sort of supernatural fantasy context

  • but there was attention paid to the historical dress.

  • Ok, you've been asking me incessantly to review this- film?

  • Yeah it was a film- for the entirety of since September.

  • It is Enola Holmes.

  • I wasn't going to do a separate review of this

  • because I just didn't have anything really nice to say.

  • And I don't like being mean

  • but Karolina Zebrowska has already done a video on this

  • and you should watch it because it is supremely accurate.

  • Her review is supremely spot on.

  • Not that the clothes are accurate (sighs).

  • What period was this movie

  • supposed to be taking place in?

  • Because they do reference one very specific,

  • I think it's the reform act or something

  • I don't specifically remember, but that does pinpoint

  • the story within a very specific date

  • which I think is 1881 or 1888, some 1880s situation.

  • There are women in crinolines.

  • There are women in bustles.

  • There are women in very specifically Edwardian

  • post turn of the century lace tea gowns at the very end.

  • And even this- this frickin red dress

  • that she spends the majority of the first half

  • of the film in

  • is more of an 18th century polonaise

  • than it is anything from the 19th century.

  • It's like this gown almost literally just came

  • out of Harlots.

  • We won't talk about why an 18th century harlot gown

  • is being worn by an 1880s teenager

  • anyway, I wanted to like this movie a lot

  • but between the clothes that just couldn't pick one decade

  • even, let alone like a century,

  • combined with the hair and makeup,

  • which again was just a disgrace.

  • I am afraid I have to put this in they tried.

  • So the next item on my list is the Spanish princess

  • which to be honest, I went into this,

  • expecting it to be like Reign/the Tudor-level

  • like ghastliness, but maybe it's because I went into that

  • with that attitude that I was actually pleasantly surprised

  • by some of the clothes?

  • The silhouettes were kind of ok

  • at least some of the shapes of the gowns.

  • Some were definitively more Victorian than Tudor

  • but alas.

  • This does, however, unfortunately suffer from, again,

  • the inevitable modern romance drama issue of

  • blasphemous hair and makeup.

  • The next film is Ammonite, which takes place in

  • I don't think they actually specify but it's 1840s,

  • probably late 1840s.

  • This film is just... yes, with the clothes, basically.

  • I buy pretty much everything.

  • The silhouettes were great,

  • the fabrics were great,

  • there was one greenish gown

  • that she wears to the beach, silk gown.

  • But the silk, the weave of the silk is like,

  • this is straight out of the early 19th century.

  • Like I buy this, this is great.

  • The way that the clothes were constructed though

  • you could tell by the way that the sleeves were set

  • and where the seams were

  • that they were looking at historical patterns.

  • The fabrics that they chose were great.

  • Even the context of the clothes, how they were worn

  • in that the sort of posher woman changes her gown,

  • not every scene, she does re-wear gowns

  • but she changes her gown sort of frequently.

  • And she's wearing nice silks,

  • whereas the geologist, she's always in this sort of homespun

  • tartan check cotton dress

  • that she wears pretty much for the entire film (sighs).

  • The context was very satisfying.

  • And just in the difference of how they wear their clothes.

  • I don't think Kate Winslet's character was wearing a corset.

  • I don't think at all within the show

  • but her silhouette was not off

  • for some unpinpointable reason

  • I don't understand why she wouldn't be wearing a corset

  • because especially when the 1840s

  • like they hadn't got restrictive yet

  • as they did sort of by the 1850s and 1860s

  • when fashionable waistlines were the smallest

  • that they were in history.

  • It worked with her character.

  • You can buy it.

  • She is on the beach all the time.

  • The other woman is definitely corseted.

  • She has definitely got that silhouette going on

  • which is 10 out of 10.

  • I'm gonna put this in chef's kiss.

  • It was pretty good.

  • The next film that we have is Come Away

  • which again is a little bit tricky because

  • a lot of it takes place in this sort of fantasy world.

  • I'm only going to be judging it based on the

  • scenes that took place in supposedly a historical context.

  • The clothes are ok.

  • That's kind of all I can say, like the clothes were ok.

  • To be fair there are degrees of terrible hair and makeup

  • like, ok she's wearing an unnatural lip shade,

  • or she's wearing a bit of eyeliner,

  • but she's wearing eyeliner and lip gloss

  • and like iron curling the front little wispy bits

  • of her hair.

  • Like no, this one goes in blasphemous hair and makeup.

  • Fortunately the majority of the film is focused on

  • the children and the children are fine.

  • And within the realm of fantasy like anything goes,

  • but I just (sighs) the level of rage that I have

  • towards whoever is responsible for the hair and makeup

  • in period films,

  • maybe it's not the costumes that we need to be

  • raging after with pitchforks,

  • but maybe it's just like the hair and makeup

  • that we need to be like, Guys. Get Your Act Together.

  • Am I just being like full of rage right now?

  • Probably.

  • The next thing that I have on my list is Bridgerton

  • which has not been released yet,

  • as of my filming this video on the 12th of December

  • it's not supposed to be released till the 25th.

  • So I am judging this based off of the trailer.

  • So all of this with a grain of salt.

  • I can say immediately, it's not historically accurate.

  • It's very Designed.

  • The menswear actually looks pretty decent,.

  • the silhouettes of the men's coats look fine.

  • The silhouettes in general pretty much look ok,

  • it's Regency.

  • So it's dandies and empire gowns and all that,

  • except for the random like mid-18th century gown

  • on one of the women at least in the trailer,

  • I don't know what that's all about

  • but it's accessorized completely modern

  • the colors and the textures

  • and the materials are all completely modern.

  • It does look deliberate.

  • Like this was a choice it's not historically accurate.

  • Where am I gonna put this?

  • Where am I gonna put this?

  • 'Cause it's not fantasy

  • but it kind of is I'm going to make an exception.

  • I'm going to put this in it was a Design Choice.

  • Not to do with actual historical events,

  • so like there is a bit of leeway,

  • I think we'll put that in it was a design choice.

  • Honorable mention goes to Jingle Jangle

  • because you can tell that this is supposed to be historical.

  • So the period of this film is Victorian.

  • And by Victorian, we mean literally, Victorian,

  • as in the costumes take place

  • in all seven decades of it.

  • the young girl was very sort of early 1890s

  • but there were also definitely like 1840s and 50s

  • crinoline gowns.

  • Like it was all over the place.

  • It was whimsical, it was not period, but it's also again

  • this one's a fantasy.

  • This one gets an honorable mention, it's going in

  • it was a design choice.

  • So those are my thoughts on the historical accuracy

  • and the ranking thereof, of the historical films

  • and TV shows that were released in 2020.

  • I'm sure that I missed some, do let me know if I missed any

  • feel free to put those in the comments below.

  • Feel free to let me know if I missed any

  • within this time period,

  • feel free to discuss any

  • that were not within this time period.

  • I know there were lots of great stuff that happened

  • more 20th century set but again,

  • my area of study is pre-World war one.

  • So I don't know enough about 20th century

  • post-World war one to accurately rank stuff.

  • This was definitely fun.

  • It gave me a lot of new period dramas to watch

  • and I recommend all the films.

  • I thought, I mean, I didn't not enjoy any of them

  • but also I'm trash for anything set in history.

  • And now I feel like I need to start like

  • actively keeping up with all the period dramas that come out

  • because I think I have a lot of things to collect for 2021.

  • I wonder what 2021 will bring us

  • in terms of the historical accuracy of period dramas.

  • Is this an entirely pointless endeavor?

  • Yes, because again, I say this in every single thing

  • that I ever do in terms of reviews

  • there is no such thing as historical accuracy.

  • So in a way we're kind just doing this for the funsies

  • and just to learn more about history

  • but does it ultimately fundamentally matter

  • if something is historically accurate or not? No.

  • Do I find it more interesting? Yes.

  • Do I enjoy learning from historical films? Yes.

  • and I do think at least making an attempt

  • for historical authenticity is a little bit important

  • because we do get to see historical dress.

  • We get to see it in museums.

  • We get to see it in photographs,

  • in fashion plates and portraiture,

  • but it's all very two-dimensional

  • and it's all very flat and still,

  • we don't often have the opportunity to see historical dress

  • in the wild on a body moving,

  • engaging in actual contextual situations.

  • And I think there is such an important learning opportunity

  • in getting to see clothes interact on a human body

  • as they were meant to be worn

  • because we do have this understanding for whatever,

  • well I know for exactly what reason,

  • but we have this understanding

  • that clothes historically were very stiff

  • and rigid and uncomfortable.

  • And I think that comes from the fact that

  • we are constantly looking at them in these two dimensional

  • stationary contexts.

  • We're not used to seeing them authentic, properly worn

  • within proper context on a human body clothes moving.

  • I think we're always a little bit surprised

  • when we get to put on an element of period dress

  • or when we see someone wearing period dress

  • and they're able to do all these "modern things".

  • And they look like such modern people.

  • We don't understand that these people

  • were more like us than we think they were.

  • So that's why I think there is a degree of importance

  • to be able to give the public more of an understanding

  • of how these clothes were worn on actual humans.

  • That's all I have for you.

  • My battery's gonna die.

  • I'm gonna go not watch period dramas

  • because I've done that for the last three days straight.

  • And I hope you have a good day.

  • And I guess I'll see you again in 2021

  • with the year review of next year or something.

  • Who am I kidding?

  • I am definitely watching more period dramas

  • because there are just so many good ones

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  • (happy floof noises)

  • Now he's falling asleep and I can't get up.

  • I'm trapped.

- So in an effort to be slightly more efficient

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