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.
The story, which is VERY adapted from the original novel, is tedious and dull. See the British TV miniseries version (starring Alex Kingston)... Read more →
Far truer to the original story than the big screen version with Robin Wright, this is a fun look at the underside of 17th century England. Alex... Read more →
Winona Ryder and Daniel Day Lewis can sometimes really irritate me, which makes it an even bigger statement when I say that this is a great movie. ... Read more →
Movies just don’t get any better than this. This is a hilarious movie based on a hilarious book, about Flora Poste (played by Kate Beckinsale)... Read more →
I like this way more for the movie that it is than for the costumes, which are very standard average-person wear. Set in Ireland during the 1950s,... Read more →
Set in the 1830s with Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez. Cholera, missing husbands, lots of running around the countryside. Worth a watch, but... Read more →
Up there with Anna Karenina and Age of Innocence as one of the top three (costume wise) bustle films, but wins out because A) the story is better and... Read more →
I’m not a huge A.S. Byatt fan, but you don’t need to be to appreciate this dark and rather twisted tale, set in the 1850s, of a scientific... Read more →
What can be said that hasn’t been said? The cause of Austen mania, Darcy mania, Colin Firth mania, Regency mania — it’s all right here. I... Read more →