This Halloween season, Trystan is indulging her gothy love of black garb in frock flicks fashion by looking at some of the most fabulous black dresses in historical costume movies and TV shows. Black wasn’t just worn for mourning, after all!
I’ve gone through the 16th century, plus the 17th and 18th century, now we get into prime territory for fancy black gowns in historical costume movies and TV shows! Sure, this is mostly mourning because Victorian is alllll about dead stuff, that’s where we get the cliches I love.
Here are some of my favorite 19th-century historical frocks in black. What are yours?
Lady of the Camelias (1981)
My Cousin Rachel (1952) & (2017)
Queen Victoria
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Scarlett (1994)
Ludwig (1973)
The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)
Deadwood (2004-2006)
Crimson Peak (2015)
Penny Dreadful (2014-2016)
What’s your favorite black Victorian outfit in historical costume movies and TV shows?
Blackadder’s Elizabethan outfit.
It’s mentioned in the 16th century black outfit post.
Crimson Peak, Penny Dreadful, Crimson Petal and The White. Those are my favourites, but both Mrs Brown and Victoria and Abdul run a close second.
When you get to the 20th are you going to mention Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Jenna Coleman’s dress is pretty, but that satin would show way too many wrinkles for my liking. I’ll go with the smocked “My Cousin Rachel” dress.
On a related note, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s mourning clothes exhibit. My main reaction was “why are so many outfits golden brown… Oh right, fading dye.”
Crimson Peak was Goth As Fuck and I loved every single second of it!
Holly Hunter’s dress in The Piano.
I love all these so much!
I missed this series. Because I was in Whitby, at a goth festival. Oh, the irony :D
Isabelle Huppert’s ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’ black dress from Madame Bovary
Sophie Marceau’s black ballgown in ‘Anna Karenina’
Deborah Kerr’s black velvet crinoline in ‘The Innocents’
Nicole Kidman’s assymetrical black velvet gown in ‘Portrait of a Lady’
The black stage costume from ‘The Prestige’ (risque!)
The ‘gothic tower’ gown from Moulin Rouge.
:D