If you're a historical costume purist and you attend a renaissance faire or Society for... Read more →

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by a brilliant friend, republishing her insightful... Read more →

As we were discussing #SnarkWeek (as one does) on Facebook, a few people mentioned the... Read more →

Pride & Prejudice (2005), starring Keira Knightley, is known as Pride & Prejudice & Pigs around here. Why? Because it seems far more interested in pig shots than in adapting the original Jane Austen novel. Here are 11 reasons to be irritated by Pride & Prejudice (2005).

Why oh why is Keira Knightley the early 21st-century "It Girl" for period dramas? I don't... Read more →

The TV show Sleepy Hollow gets some aspects of 18th century costume right, and others Wrongity Wrong Wrong.

Valmont, the 1989 adaptation of the book Dangerous Liaisons, was directed by Miloš... Read more →

Since we're friends here, I feel comfortable admitting that I love Amadeus (1984) for... Read more →

As a life-long student of 19th-century English literature and as a historical costumer... Read more →

I. Love. Annie. Lennox. LOVE HER. But lest you think I'm going to go soft on her 1992... Read more →