Historical fiction all the time leaves these fashion facts out. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the style details that historical movies and shows get unsuitable. Our countdown includes vibrant colours, an excessive amount of cleavage, doublets hanging out, and more! Which historical fashion fact surprised YOU probably the most? Tell us within the comments below!
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Which historical fashion fact surprised YOU the most? Let us know below, and check out our video of the Top 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Costumes on TV – https://youtu.be/04RTrTxVFQM
@FatGayandTired
Costume designer here- you are VERY WRONG about colors in fabrics. What’s very wrong is the overuse of black clothing.
@betsyduane3461
Then why were ancient Roman statues originally colored in bright hues? And ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs? There are plenty of examples of brightly colored garments that have been preserved.
@betsyduane3461
Family jewels means testicles and lineage, not actual jewelry. The capacity for reproduction and the passage of genetic material down from one generation to the next, and was not a saying until the Victorian age.
@betsyduane3461
Plenty of pictures of women not wearing stockings in the 40's.
@kristinapaxton9686
Regency not Renaissance….correct correctly….
@asha_vere
Maybe we wanna see handsome men in their underwear 🤷🏻♀️
@cindyphillips2551
I think it's silly to think that anything in Bridgerton is historically accurate (still fun to watch, but it's hardly a documentary).
@aprettygothichick
One that annoys me is seeing women wearing high heeled shoes in historical films. High heeled boots and shoes were originaly for men. The boots specifically were meant to help them ride horses better. They also felt the added height of a heel made them appear more masculine. Flats or rather what the equivalent of flats would have been then is what women would have worn. Much more dainty and feminine.
@v0kiki
Cod pieces getting bigger was partly due to the rise in some deceases that effected the genital area. More room ment relieve if everything was sore or covered in blisters and pus.
@mainlyfine
You forgot to mention that in the movies everyone has perfectly straight white teeth – not something supported by history.
Historical portraits never show the sitters teeth – and for good reason
@tommoncrieff1154
FGS. You can’t critique others and in your very first point say ‘the Renaissance era’ which is Italy in the 1400s to 1520 and show drama and experts of the English Regency period which is 1810 to 1820! Major fail at the kick off. Doesn’t anyone check your scripts?
@houseofyum3969
That women in the west had covered hair most of the time was the most surprising to me. It makes xenophobes who look at women who cover their hair for religious/societal expectation purposes in modern times as doing something unheard of all the more ignorant.
@lornae8683
I think in the 1968 Romeo and Juliet movie the men wore the cod-piece and I couldn’t stop laughing ( I was 17 when I saw the movie) I snickered most of the movie which ticked off my cousin cause she couldn’t stop laughing either and she wanted to actually watch the movie.
@mangot589
Never a codpiece in sight😂 Thank goodness! However, it was so very hip, good for any actor that actually has the guts to wear them. In another 300 years, they’re going to be amazed by sagging, I’m sure. Just as ridiculous as codpieces lol.
@TurquoiseStar17
The big boots thing seems to have become more prominent in the last 20 years. Productions based on this era just don't want their male stars walking around in tights anymore.
That plus a few other things on this list were quite noticeable with The Tudors 😅
@sarahduke2839
Nylons suck
@AbigailGerlach-zt1sh
You are entirely WRONG! Bare legs were occasionally necessary when stockings weren't available. Women took an eyebrow pencil and drew a seam line down the back of their bare legs. This was particularly true in England during WWII. How do I know? My mother was a WAF in 1939.
@mm-yt8sf
two hundred years from now they'll have period movies of the 21st century with men wearing walking around with their trousers unzipped and wide open, though to be fair that was definitely a 22nd century thing… 🙂
another thing they get wrong is women walking around with their nipples showing. yes modern actresses are known for them and it's an important part in our identification algorithms, but back in the 2020s they always had them covered…there were even laws against it. so to be period accurate, always keep them under cloth. one might argue what's the point of using big name actors, then? 🙂
@MrTwotimess
And the green dyes were deadly for the wearer of green frocks. Since green is my favourite colour, I'd be fashionably pushing up the daisies in my green wardrobe. Arsenic is a bugger.
@theresamay9481
I knew some of this info, but not all. Working at an office in the mid-1980's, they would send women home if you weren't wearing stockings with any a dress or skirt – even in hot Los Angeles. Crazy.