Costume Designers can choose to strive for accurate representation and or exact replication of the period fashion ( Emma, 2020 film) or vary with much creative liberty they take (Little Women, 2019 Film & Bridgerton, 2020 TV Show).
Bellow are some interviews of their though process and how they use fashion to create characters, communicate mood, and world build.
Choosing a Century for inspiration. Not strictly 19 th Cen (some characters is the 1940 s version of 19th Cen)
1940's -Fashion plate style for stepmother
1700s -Royals
1860s- Middle Class Merchants
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