You know this outfit and this one.

But are they accurate?

We got this fashion historian.

Hi, I'm receiver Tanya and I'm a fashion historian.

To walk us through what the movie got right and what they got wrong about these books.

First, let's establish the setting.

Titanic was based on actual historical events that took place in April of 1912 on route to America here we're at the height of gilded age society, but also at the beginning of modern fashion.

This film was meticulously researched and the costume designer made sure that Rose had the latest style straight from paris costume designer Deborah Lynn scott actually won the Oscar for best costume design for this movie.

To research this film, she looked at extent garments in museum collections, but also fashion publications from that time period.

Let's start with roses iconic suit The Titanic set sail at noon and we see rose wearing this cream striped afternoon suit.

Roses afternoon suit looks almost exactly like a suit that appears in a French magazine in 1912.

This is absolutely accurate.

The perfect ensemble to be boarding a ship in the afternoon.

So this is actually accurate.

But let's draw roses day dress from the undergarments out.

Anyway.

First up the underwear For the underwear, Rosewood have been wearing a shamis drawers and stockings.

The shimmies of 1912 is a little bit different from ones that we've previously looked at.

This one has a lot of delicate lace and a ruffled edge at the neckline.

The drawers were less voluminous and they were in previous years, mostly because of the changing silhouette.

You can see that she's wearing stockings here.

Stockings are made of knitted cotton or silk and were usually light colored for day.

Sometimes even with inset lakes.

Next the corset, We see rose being laced into a corset.

And one scene of the movie where she has a really important discussion with her mom.

You would like to see that again the year 1912 specifically.

It was a really interesting time for women and corsets because they were evolving and shaping with the silhouette.

But the most modern women started to abandon the course.

It all together.

This scene perfectly illustrates this push and pull between this more tight laced past and more modern future.

This is really the beginning of the straightened silhouette that we will see in the 1920s, Just 10 years before the dramatic silhouette was called an S.

Curve.

And you can see that in this picture here, even though the most modern women were already abandoning corsets in 1912, the really rigid traditions of the society in which rose lived really demanded that she wear one next layer.

Over the course it she would have worn a camisole and a petticoat.

A camisole would have been worn to soften that rigid line at the top.

The petticoats at this time period were pretty narrow, as we can see in this ad this exists somewhere between the full victorian petticoat and the modern slip.

These two garments were typically cotton for the day.

The next layer is the top.

We can see that Rose is wearing a really high collard shirt waist and accessorized with a necktie.

The women's shirtwaist was derived from the man's button and collard shirt and was the first truly modern garment of the 20th century.

Men's fashions started to influence women's wear beginning in the late 19th century, but by 1912 it was the norm.

The shirtwaist was also an egalitarian garment worn by both upper and lower classes.

When women's wear started to take influence from menswear, we got garments like this which were more comfortable and casual, and now the suit We know that this is the most up to date fashion because it appeared in the January 1912 issue of La Mode, which was a popular French fashion publication.

This particular example is made by the couture house linker in company, Bro's would have gone to a couture house to be fit and had this garment made specifically for her.

The tailor made was the name for women's walking suit.

Much like this one the tailor made was often warned for travel, which makes this entirely appropriate.

But there were other afternoon styles for different activities.

You can see in this deck seen that there are other women promenading, showing off similar ensembles.

A very important part of ocean liner culture was showing off the latest fashions that you probably just bought in paris.

This costume hints at a very short lived fad from this time period called the hobble skirt.

As you can see the circumference of the skirt kind of narrows at the ankle and it was said that it really restricted the strides of women and they had to hobble around the next layer her shoes.

You can see her shoes right here when she steps out of the car and they look like these and then there's the gloves.

The very first thing we see of Rose is her white glove gloves, completed any gilded age ensemble and women wore gloves anytime they were seen in public, women would have coordinating gloves with each outfit and as you can see, her white gloves perfectly matched her cream suit.

Moving on to the hair when Rose removes her hat.

Later, indoors we get a good look at her hair.

She wears her hair up, which is accurate for her age and station hair was really only worn down by adolescents and young girls.

After one's debutante ball, you would wear your hair up.

We do see rows with her hair down at other points of the movie.

This could be anachronistic, but it was likely a character choice.

To really illustrate that Rose was an independent spirit and she really desired to break out of this constricting society over her hair would be the hat.

This hat is the most iconic feature of this costume and it really facilitates this dramatic reveal of her character.

This style of hat was extremely fashionable for the time period, hats actually reached their widest around 1910 when the Brim would extend past the shoulders.

At that time, it was called a Merry Widow hat which is after a broadway play called The Merry Widow.

We can see that Roses hat is made out of a heavily stiffened straw and decorated with a wide tap it abo here.

You can see another kind of decoration used on hats at the time.

And yes, that is a taxidermied bird.

There was this trend of having taxidermy birds of top women's hats.

This was so fashionable that it eventually depleted bird populations and some species were even driven to endangerment or extinction.

Unsurprisingly, these large hats were the subject of satire at the time, because these hats were so large, the pins used to secure them were equally large at this time.

Some women would use these really long hat pins as weapons to fend off predatory men and these especially long hat pins could prove quite dangerous.

And this phenomenon was so widespread that the media termed it the hat pin peril.

Here's what Roses Day suit would have looked like compared to the movie.

So this is entirely accurate, but let's add a bird.

Let's move on to Rose's eveningwear.

Another aspect of ocean liner culture were these lavish nightly dinners on board because this is a nightly affair.

We see a couple different dinner dresses on Rose.

This was the height of gilded age society and these women were spending more money than ever before on their clothes.

So much so that they would have a different dinner dress for every night.

These costumes were modeled off of real dresses, so these are also accurate.

Now we're going to draw every layer of the evening dress.

First up the underwear, the underwear would be the same, but it would probably be silk instead of cotton for evening.

She would be wearing stockings and we do see that she wears black ones in the scene when she's dancing with Jack.

Okay, for both of these evening dresses, darker stockings would be appropriate.

And then the corset when dressing for dinner, Rose might switch out her corset for a finer one made out of silk.

Rose would have likely purchased her corset from a specialty shop in paris if she was already there shopping.

And then the next layer, an alternative to the camisole and petticoat was this single garment called the Princess petticoat, which is similar to what would later be called the slip for an evening dress.

This fine, a princess petticoat made out of a coordinating colored fabric would be standard.

And then the main event, the dress.

You can see the inspiration behind roses, costumes in the designs from these very prominent designers from 1912.

As you can see in these examples, a lot of these dresses incorporated layers of sheer fabric that were then embellished with beating The fashionable silhouette of 1912, was actually remarkably similar to that of 1812.

You can see a high waistline with a narrow skirt both here and here.

This is an era in which Parisian designers were really creating the most forward thinking designs.

One of the most modern of modern designers was Lady Duff Gordon, who went by the name Lucille when she was a designer.

And actually she is a character in this film.

You can see Rose introducing her.

Here you see a Lady Duff Gordon?

She designs naughty lingerie among her many talents, but she wasn't just a lingerie designer.

She was actually a pioneer in the fashion field.

She actually instituted the practice of draping fabric on a model instead of flat patterning, which is standard practice now, but she really pioneered it.

And now, the shoes, we get a close look at Rosie's shoes when she steps onto the railing here we see that they are made of satin and dyed to match the color of her dress.

Then her jewelry, We can see in this scene that the necklace and earrings that rose wear match.

And that's because they were likely part of a set called Peru or but we all know that the most important piece of jewelry in this film is the heart of the Ocean.

This necklace was designed by Director James Cameron and based on the Hope diamond.

The Hope diamond was the biggest and most famous diamond in the world and also a similar blue color and then her gloves.

We see all of the women in this scene wearing over the elbow or opera length gloves just before going into the dining room.

Women were expected to wear gloves any time they were in public, but they are allowed to take them off when dining and then her hair, her hair is down and loose in this scene.

But at dinner we see that it's properly done.

Rose's hair is adorned with bits of jewelry, very similar to this image of actress lily Elsie, because the fashionable hairstyle was so voluminous, you needed a lot of hair.

Sometimes you would even use hairpieces to create additional volume.

So when brushing their hair, women would save the hair that was on their hair brush and put it into a little receptacle on their table and then use that to create these hairpieces.

Finally, her makeup, every single aspect of this costume is accurate.

Until we get to the makeup.

If I'm going to fact check this, I'm going to say that this makeup is extremely 1990s.

In the early 20th century, women actually wore very little visible makeup and that's because to do so would align them with what society called painted ladies and those were really women that were not considered respectable.

Like actresses or cord is sans.

It wouldn't be until the following decade that cosmetics would really become socially acceptable.

We can see that rose has the darkened eyebrows, eyeliner and darker lipstick, much like kate winslet would wear off camera makeup is often the least historically accurate aspect of period films.

And that's because actors and characters have to be appealing to modern audiences.

So here's what roses evening dress would have looked like compared to the movie version, pretty much the same titanic is as historically accurate as period films get.

It's really only the makeup that betrays the period in which the film was made.

The historical accuracy of this film is really owed to the meticulous research done and that was out of respect for the tragedy they did their research.

And it shows, and that's probably why this is an enduring classic.