Kendra has been a fixture in the online costuming world since the late 1990s. Her website, Démodé Couture, is one of the most well-known online resources for historical costumers. In the summer of 2014, she published a book on 18th-century wig and hair styling. Kendra is a librarian at a university, specializing in history and fashion. She’s also an academic, with several articles on fashion history published in research journals.
Obviously Frock Flicks loves teasing and snarking, but I believe we try to be fair and balanced in the sense that we critique (and tease and snark)... Read more →
We've already reviewed the costumes in Bridgerton (2020), the Netflix adaptation of a series of romance novels by author Julia Quinn. However, there... Read more →
My Brilliant Career (1979), the adaptation of the 1901 autobiography by Australian writer Miles Franklin, isn't a showy movie. The script and pacing... Read more →
It’s become my own personal tradition to recap something shitty each Snark Week. It all inadvertently started with War and Peace (2016), and then... Read more →
Andrea Riseborough is an English actress who is very talented, and has that slightly buggy-eyed (very attractive!) look that makes her perfect for... Read more →
Antebellum (2020) was one of the many feature films that got caught in the COVID-19 storm. It was originally slated to be released in April 2020, but... Read more →
Queen Isabella of Castile (1451-1504) is another complicated historical figure that I can't say I have a crush on, but I do find interesting. She had... Read more →
Hans Axel von Fersen (1755-1810) was a Swedish count and Swedish general who spent time in France as a diplomat, where he became close to... Read more →
Well, people, we have finally reached the end of The Spanish Princess (2019-2020)! That's right, Starz has announced that this will be the final... Read more →
Actor Joseph Schildkraut (1896-1964) was born -- and got his start in -- Austria, but moved to the US in the 1910s. He won an Oscar for playing... Read more →