Crimson Peak's Costumes, and How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion

Won't somebody please write a poem about how sexy it is that I am dying of a disease?? Come with me on a journey through the costume design in Crimson Peak, and how an epidemic shaped the fashion of the Victorian Era.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:49 Medicine, death, and macabre fashion
7:59 A recap of Crimson Peak
9:54 A look at the costumes
17:06 Outro and Credits

SOURCES

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, “Designer Kate Hawley Talks The Menacing Beauty of Crimson Peak's Victorian Costumes,” https://themuse.jezebel.com/designer-...
“Crimson Peak: Part One” FIDM Blog, http://blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/201...
“Mourning Dress,” The MET Museum, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...,
Singh, Simon; Ernst, Edzard Trick Or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine.
Dr lindsay Fitzharris, "The Butchering Art"
Chris Woodyard, “The Victorian Book of the Dead”


IMAGES and VIDEO

House of Ghosts, 1908

Crimson Peak, 2015

Tate Museum

DevilsNight

AntiqueDress.com

Lady Lilith by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

FIDM Museum Collection

Kate Hawley

The Bridesmaid by John Everett Millais

Vanity by Frank Cadogan Cowper



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