What's your favourite style decade?
telegraph.co.ukThe Gilded Age, set in 1880s New York, to Claire Foy’s elegant postwar Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal, or The Crown’s regal journey from the 1950s to the 1980s.
There’s more to come, too. On 25 March Bridgerton returns to Netflix in all its Regency splendour, then in April the second Downton Abbey film will reunite us with the Crawley family amid art deco grandeur.The level of research that goes into recreating the looks of these eras is astonishing – The Gilded Age’s costume designer Kasia Walicka-Maimone recently said her team collated 5,000 image references, ensuring the nuances of each character’s social class were captured in the style of their bustle or corset.Period-drama influences are now apparent in fashion collections, too – after all, many designers, like the rest of us, have spent the past two years watching TV instead of taking research trips to far-flung climes.
The result? You can now bring your favourite TV costume moments into your real-life wardrobe, as The Telegraph’s fashion and culture editors discover…The ’60s was such a fun era for fashion.
After the full skirts and girlish knitwear of the ’50s, it was time for a more tomboyish silhouette to take over, heralded by Mary Quant with her store Bazaar on the King’s Road, Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton, Jackie O’s prim skirt suits and the mod subculture in London.
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