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.
I don't know that I have a crush on Queen Mary I of England (1516-58, reigned 1553-58), but I do find her fascinating. She's so generally overlooked... Read more →
Maison Close (2010) is a French TV series that is 10 years old, but just recently came to Hulu. We've been waiting for it, so I decided to check it... Read more →
Y’all, I really need to get back to my 18th-Century Quest, wherein I try to watch every historical costume film/TV show set in the 18th century.... Read more →
Charlotte Rampling is a British actress who was an icon of the 1960s and known for her long career in many arthouse movies. She's acted in a number... Read more →
Okay, so I have a thing for Louis XV (1710-74; reigned 1715-74). Not old Louis, mind you, but hot young Louis. It mostly stems from a very vivid... Read more →
There are some definite problems with the Merchant/Ivory film Jefferson in Paris (1995). The story doesn't quite come together, the filmmakers don't... Read more →
On Tuesday, I posted the first half of my review of Thieves of the Wood (2018), the Belgian miniseries set in 1747 about a group of outlaws. In that... Read more →
Last Snark Week, Trystan did a round-up of variously potentially bad subtitled frock flicks, and suggested I watch Thieves of the Wood (2018), a... Read more →
I've never been able to track down a copy of Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), the feature film that sort-of adapted the BBC miniseries The Six... Read more →
One of our favorite past times here at Frock Flicks HQ is to take a glance a the search terms that people use to land on our website. Not... Read more →