Ranking Every 2023 Historical Drama on Costume Accuracy

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Perhaps there should be a "This is just Insulting" when the costumes actually put down the culture they are depicting like 1521.

"I haven't really seen glitter polyester in traditional Korean garmenture, but... who's to say?" killed me. This was a great video and very informative.

I love that you didn't just cover English-speaking media, and that you brought in people who specialise in the given places and/or time periods. Fantastic video!

My fav character detail in Good Omens is that Crowley is always embracing the new and flashy while Aziraphale is usually lagging behind. Such a wonderful way to illustrate their differences

That Chinese critic went the extra mile with the graphics and I noticed and appreciated

learning that we could have gotten crowley in a corset and didnt is actually heartbreaking

One small note about Peter and Wendy, I don't think Hook is supposed to be from the "modern" 1900's time. I think time in neverland works different and Hook is actually from the late 1700's so his coat and powdered wig are current for HIM but totally out of time for everything else. Afterall, his ship is completely from the wrong century as well. EDIT: I think you need a category above "gets the job done" and below peak. Something like "Missed it by a Chemise". Because a lot of these are better than just getting it done. And also a category for "Insulting our intelligence" for shows that play into wrong stereotypes, or outright insult cultural heritage for things like Vikings with horned helmets, leather armor, "barbarians" with dirty faces, etc.

I loved that the critic from the Philippines cited references and pulled up a page from one of the books she was citing :)

I have seen Bernadette mourn the lack of chemises under corsets so many times that the other day I literally exulted when I saw someone wear a corset properly in a manwha🤣

1:16:47 “Every time someone calls me Napoleon, the nation of the French gets a little bit meaner.” 😂 That bit was so funny, with the straight-faced, matter of fact way he said that. Plus Bernadette absolutely dying on the floor while holding up the mic lma

Here in Germany we have a historian who has a youtube channel - Geschichtsfenster - who calls the special filter, that takes away the colours: "The medieval-filter". He calls this out as a problem in a lot of so called "documentaries" about the middle ages. I guess it is something film makers use, when they want to show that the past was worse than today. Well, they are wrong - in respect to colour and clothes. The past was different.

What a wonderful video! A special shout-out to Song Ruohan for adding little illustrations of what a historically accurate costume would look like--they were such beautiful renderings that added so much to her perspective. Thank you all for your hard work!

I love that Bernadette is just crouched on the ground the entirety of Zacks interview trying not to laugh

I actually made a costume for The Chosen episode with the crowd of 5000! They sent out a pdf with costuming guidelines for each ethnic group and let extras decide which they wanted to represent. I know for a fact the costume I made was not historically accurate, but she was an extra 😂 it got the job done.

I think Bernadette needs to resurrect the “blasphemous hair and makeup” category. Modern hair and makeup always takes me right out of a period piece. And maybe add a special dishonorable mention category for blatant cultural misrepresentations. Seriously, this is a wonderful video, congratulations to all the experts who participated. I was kinda hoping to see Harry Lloyd’s fantasy-vision Richard III from the Lost King, which was very generic medieval and clearly in modern fabrics. Maybe that was outside the scope of this review, but it would have been fun to see Bernadette’s reaction to this costume. I feel like GOT has had an outsized influence on anything historical and/or fantasy: they all have to be filmed with those ridiculous blue-gray filters, as if the sun never shone in the Middle Ages. And all the metallic studded leather on peasants makes me ROTFL, wondering where they got the money for such a garment, or when they had the time and tools necessary to make it themselves.

Captain Hook’s coat is supposed to look 200 years old because the character is from the Golden Age of Piracy (1650-1730), but he lives in Neverland where everything doesn’t age. His crew has been picked up from here and there over the centuries to replace crewmen who have died in battle. It has been several decades since I read the book, but almost every interpretation I’ve seen of Hook dresses him from the GAoP. It’s accurate to the story. [Insert image of a garishly dressed Dustin Hoffman from Hook (1991) here.]

I was actually on the set of Fairy Garden (Tündérkert) and you do NOT know the amount of terrifying details I have seen. Especially with the corset scene, it had to be recorded in very quick shots, as most of it was produced in winter, and in the underground tunnels with zero heating. Most of the costumes were actually rented iirc from theatres in Budapest, and few of the actresses actually knew how to wear a corset. I got a cold standing there a few hours, so I cannot imagine what the actors had to endure. 😕

I just want to comment that a show, like Good Omens 2, actually choosing, okay, we’re only going to have four costumes, but we’re going to do them RIGHT, is actually pretty cool. Because, as was stated, some shows/movies have tight schedules and budgets, so they can’t do every costume perfectly. Maybe if they had infinite resources, it would be better, but they don’t. So GO2 specifically chose, we’re not going to clothe 30 people in approximately period clothing. We’ll do 4 characters well. And I really appreciate that. 🐍

I almost feel like there should be a separate tier for when substantially more effort and research was clearly put in for the costumes for either the men or the women and the other gender got done dirty