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Tatiana Maslany attends SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations screening of ‘Stronger’ at SAG-AFTRA Foundation Screening Room on November 6, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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The White Princess costumes: 1.02 Hearts and Minds

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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

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(fire and blood); Queen Naerys

Queen Naerys Targaryen was the sister-wife to King Aegon IV, known as the Unworthy, the sister of Prince Aemon “the Dragonknight”, and the mother of King Daeron II Targaryen and Princess Daenerys Targaryen. Naerys had the Targaryen looks, a very fine and delicate beauty, almost unworldy. She was very slender and small, with big purple eyes and fine, pale, porcelain skin, near translucent. Naerys dressed well, but simply, and seldom wore her crown or any other jewellery. She loved music and poetry, played the harp very well and enjoyed sewing and embroidering. She was also devout in her faith, and often found solace in the pages of the Seven-Pointed Star. She would have become a septa, had her father allowed it.

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costume series: Georgiana’s striped outside dress from The Duchess (2008)

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♕ Jon and Sansa in Game of Thrones 6.04 “Book of the Stranger”

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“I know about the promise,“ insisted the girl. "Maester Theomore, tell them! A thousand years before the Conquest, a promise was made, and oaths were sworn in the Wolf’s Den before the old gods and the new. When we were sore beset and friendless, hounded from our homes and in peril of our lives, the wolves took us in and nourished us and protected us against our enemies. The city is built upon the land they gave us. In return we swore that we should always be their men. Stark men!”

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For six years, this year, and this, and this, and this, I did not love him. And then I did. Then I was his. I can count the days I was his in hundreds. The days we bedded. Married. Were Happy. Bore Elizabeth. Hated. Lusted. Bore a dead child, which condemned me to death. In all one thousand days. Just a thousand. Strange. And of those thousand, one when we were both in love, only one, when our loves met and overlapped and were both mine and his. And when I no longer hated him, he began to hate me. Except for that one day.

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And now, neither is our daughter.

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Hayley Atwell as Aliena in ‘The Pillars of the Earth’ S01E08

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A Royal Affair (2012)

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Costume rant: BBC War & Peace (2016), ep. 3

Costume rant: Episode 1

Costume rant: Episode 2

In this episode, Natasha grew up a bit, which in this version of course means that she came into her own as a mannequin for fuck-ugly costumes, thus joining the elite club once populated primarily by Anna Pavlovna and Helene Kuragin.

Ahhhh, yes, this dress is back again:

Sigh. It’s really awful, and Sonya’s isn’t much better in the above photo. Two lacy little slips with see-through drapes over top of them. Especially Natasha’s: a lacy little teddy under a sheer Edwardian over-dress. In what way does this resemble a ca. 1810 dress.

As usual, however, Helene will not be outdone in ugliness.

Huh????

Huuuuhhhhh?????????

I could swear I saw this exact same dress on a deep-discount sale rack of bridesmaids’ dresses at David’s Bridal, ca. 2001. And I saw this one on the mother-of-the-bride dress sale rack:

They are both tank top nightmares in that most hideous of colors for white people, the dreaded beige. This is off-white:

This is cream-colored:

This is eggshell:

None of these is the same as beige.

And why oh why do women not grasp the concept of sleeves in this alternative universe of 1810 costuming? Do sleeves not exist? Are they considered bad luck? If you wear a ballgown with more than spaghetti straps on it, are you doomed to be a wallflower all night?

Oops, nope, spoke too soon:

Yeesh. I wish I hadn’t wished for sleeves. More beige. Beige lacy junk on her arms, beige lacy junk on her chest. Don’t even know what they’re trying to evoke with this design, those weirdo half-sleeves…It looks like a bad Ren Faire costume. And more clumsy boob darts. Oy.

I see that Anna Pavlovna is continuing her love affair with cheap-looking satin. And what is with the triangular bodice inserts in these dresses? There are tons of these in this miniseries, and they puzzle the hell out of me, considering how not 1805-1812 they are. Stop the V-necks, please, for the love of God!

But back on track. There hasn’t been nearly enough Helene yet in this post.

This woman never runs out of nightgowns. She has an endless supply. The first one is patently ridiculous, it looks like a slutty Halloween costume version of Arwen from the Lord of the Rings movies. The second one is even more infuriating because it looks like it’s trying to be period but just failing. That style of bodice on that over-dress would be more accurate to ca. 1798, and it was way out of style by 1810. So maybe the BBC should actually stop trying, because even when they try, they still fuck it up somehow.

…On second thought, they should keep trying. Because this is an embarrassment. The enormous strings of pearls are 100% genuine Roaring ‘20s flapper, and the dress itself has the usual Edwardian flavor to it. Back to Downton again.

This pelisse and hat bewilder the crap out of me:

The pelisse makes her look like a patchwork quilt. The hat, I just…whut. The fur is trying a bit too hard to look “Russian.” The annoying thing is that, for once, she’s actually wearing clothing that has the right shape for the period, but the fabric/material choices zoom in to torpedo that right away.

And for our usual bad male costume of the episode, this fashionable Dolokhov ensemble has to be the winner: