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cimorene...pursuant to the last paragraph of my previous entry and the silly cover art for McKillip's Heir of Sea and Fire.
As usual, Karolina Żebrowska encapsulates my fury on this subject pretty well. Karolina Żebrowska on YouTube: How Hollywood thinks people react to historical costumes
Before today, my last rant on the subject concerned the new Wheel of Time show, although I hasten to add that wardrobe-wise this show has some decent design, it's just plagued with flaws in realism/styling, materials, and execution. (The shearling/fur-lined coats without button fastenings, for example. These are plausible garments that mirror historical styles used by real cultures. The problems are 1. the fake fur not looking good enough, 2. the sewing not succeeding in making the fake fur look right, and 3. the styling onscreen, ie the actors complaining extensively about being cold and not raising the collars/pulling down the cuffs/tying the fronts closed, which is what you do in that situation with that type of garment in reality. Direction, styling and filming in a temperature different from what they're pretending they're in were probably all at fault.) (And visible zippers and puckered seams and ill-fitting garments that in-verse had to have been tailored to the body are all execution problems.)
As usual, Karolina Żebrowska encapsulates my fury on this subject pretty well. Karolina Żebrowska on YouTube: How Hollywood thinks people react to historical costumes
Before today, my last rant on the subject concerned the new Wheel of Time show, although I hasten to add that wardrobe-wise this show has some decent design, it's just plagued with flaws in realism/styling, materials, and execution. (The shearling/fur-lined coats without button fastenings, for example. These are plausible garments that mirror historical styles used by real cultures. The problems are 1. the fake fur not looking good enough, 2. the sewing not succeeding in making the fake fur look right, and 3. the styling onscreen, ie the actors complaining extensively about being cold and not raising the collars/pulling down the cuffs/tying the fronts closed, which is what you do in that situation with that type of garment in reality. Direction, styling and filming in a temperature different from what they're pretending they're in were probably all at fault.) (And visible zippers and puckered seams and ill-fitting garments that in-verse had to have been tailored to the body are all execution problems.)
