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The Great (2020)

POV: Well Then!

Kendra September 8, 2020

I’m not even quite sure how to introduce this post, other than to say...

Answering Your Most Pressing Questions, Pt. 3

The Frock Flicks Team February 12, 2020

One of our favorite past times here at Frock Flicks HQ is to take...

1997-Titanic-corsetry

Titanic (1997) Corsetry: Historically Accurate?

Kendra August 6, 2019

So I was noodling around YouTube as one does, and I discovered that Glamour...

Answering Your Most Pressing Questions 2: Electric Boogaloo

The Frock Flicks Team March 29, 2018

Back in March, 2016, we did something bad. Or genius. You decide: One of...

Kyoto Costume Institute

Buttoning Up the Myth About Buttons

Sarah Lorraine August 29, 2017

I randomly stumbled across the Historical Movie Costume tumblr and was scrolling through it when...

Queen Elizabeth I (1538-1603) in Old Age, c_1610 (oil on panel), English School, (17th century) Corsham Court, Wiltshire

The Old Elizabeth I: Gross or Glorious?

Sarah Lorraine June 24, 2016

This article has once more been making the rounds, and as 1/3rd of Frock Flicks,...

The Crimson Field (2014)

The Crimson Field (2014): Downton Abbey Meets MAS*H

Trystan L. Bass July 13, 2015

Set in 1915 at an English field hospital, The Crimson Field is part of...

2014 Outlander

Podcast: Outlander (2014)

The Frock Flicks Team August 29, 2014

This adaptation of the popular historical fiction/time travel books gets a lot right, but...

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Crap at Versailles. Like, literally.

Kendra August 21, 2014

Okay kids. Following up on yesterday’s post, which has garnered a lot of feedback...

Louis-Léopold Boilly, La Toilette Intime ou la Rose Effeuille. Late 18th century.

The Gross 18th Century: Calling bullshit on hygiene myths

Sarah Lorraine August 20, 2014

Terry Dresbach, costumer for TV series Outlander, had to go and ruin it by...