7 mistakes that costume designers made during filming (8 photos)

One of my favorite things about watching historical films is the colorful and eye-catching costumes. Big dresses with lots of decorations and complex hairstyles look simply amazing on the screen. But sometimes filmmakers get carried away and make obvious mistakes.





"Two Queens"



In the film "Two Queens" Saoirse Ronan played Mary Stewart. In this picture she wears earrings, and quite unusual ones at that. She has five of them in her left ear. However, in real life, Mary Stewart did not have them. Some viewers said that Mary Stewart did not have earrings at all, even though they were common then. However, it is not. Mary had piercings, but she wore small single earrings. What was definitely not there were five earrings at once. Costume designers made the mistake of mistaking one painting of Mary Stewart for truth. This painting showed Stewart with five earrings, but the point is that this is the only such image, and the painting itself was painted in a completely different country by a person who had never seen Mary Stewart, so this moment is just a figment of the imagination.

"War and Peace"





In the series "War and Peace" Gillian Anderson played Anna Pavlovna Scherer. Nothing bad can be said about the actress, because Gillian was on the screen in her repertoire - unique and ideal. But one costume of her heroine raised a logical question. She wore a dress with a low back and one sleeve missing. Nowadays it is quite an ordinary dress, but at that time no one was wearing it.

"The Great Gatsby"



There are a few costume inaccuracies in The Great Gatsby, although it's worth noting that the film looks very stylish and I don't even want to point out any mistakes. The main character, played by Carey Mulligan, wears a party outfit that does not correspond to the time. In fact, the cutout on the back should have been larger, and its shape should have been square. The 1974 film turned out to be more accurate in this regard. Isla Fisher's character has too much cleavage, but necklines of this size were worn either a decade ago or a little later.

Also worth noting is the racial diversity. Throughout the film, at various parties and events, you can see many black people who came to have fun. This really happened, but definitely not in such quantities as in the film. There also wasn't much diversity in different orientations. All this began to appear much later. And it's still worth noting that the 1974 film did a better job here too.

"Tudors"



The series "The Tudors" certainly cannot be called historically accurate, especially because of the women's dresses. In the series, Gabrielle Anwar's character wears an off-the-shoulder dress, which lets us know that there is nothing underneath the dress. However, for that time, girls wore shirts under their dresses, and no one wore dresses with cutouts in the shoulders.

"Pompeii"



The film "Pompeii" is considered historical, but this concept is blurred against the background of such genres as "adventure disaster film". Special fans of Ancient Rome may have noticed an interesting discrepancy with real history. Senator Corvus and some others wore purple robes, but this simply could not be because only the Emperor of Rome could wear clothes of this color. Everyone else could get punished.

"Farewell my queen"



Some costume designers forget that paints that can be used to achieve bright colors have not always existed, so when some historical films show costumes with bright colors, questions arise. For example, in the film Farewell My Queen, Yolande Polignac wears a bright green dress. At that time, it was indeed possible to make a green dress, but the shade would obviously not be as bright.

"Spanish Princess"



The armor expander is exactly what Robert Baratheon needed in his time. But George R.R. Martin should have simply followed the example of Catherine of Aragon, who, according to the creators of The Spanish Princess, wore a maternity bib. He did not follow this example only because such armor did not exist, since its creation contradicted itself. Armor is needed to protect a person, but a blow with a sword will not pass without a trace even in armor, especially for a child, who is separated from the armor by only skin.