So I'm watching Elizabeth (1998) right now. I was wondering if the back sash things that Elizabeth and her ladies in waiting were wearing in the country, were actually period correct or not? They seem out of place a bit.
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No, they’re not. I mean, it’s possible they might have been worn in some form for fancy dress at a masque or something, but I’ve never seen anything resembling them in portraiture. I think Alexandra Byrne just used them to say, “Oh, look how young and flighty and carefree they are! And here, I’ll make Elizabeth’s bright pink to show that she’s a PRETTY PRETTY FUCKING PRINCESS!!!”

Elizabeth I on screen.

Costume design by Edith Head for Elizabeth Taylor in “A Place in the Sun” (1951).

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Costume design by Edith Head for Elizabeth Taylor in “A Place in the Sun” (1951).

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Empresses of Russia by George S. Stuart

Costume designed by Walter Plunkett for Elizabeth Taylor in “Raintree County” (1957).

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