OK, by special request - and purely because it's on telly tonight - we're going to break period for *one night only* and do a #Halloween Special looking in detail at the bonkers majesty that is the costuming of

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Starting 9pm GMT when the film does https://twitter.com/Citizeness_Kane/status/1321449961985376256
The wolf armour! So fantastic. Like a flayed body. House Bolton eat yer heart out (oh. They might.) Elisabeta's green frock is far more 1550s than 1462 but sets the green tone for the women's costumes for most of the film.
The wolf armour! So fantastic. Like a flayed body. House Bolton eat yer heart out (oh. They might.) Elisabeta's green frock is far more 1550s than 1462 but sets the green tone for the women's costumes for most of the film.
The wolf armour! So fantastic. Like a flayed body. House Bolton eat yer heart out (oh. They might.) Elisabeta's green frock is far more 1550s than 1462 but sets the green tone for the women's costumes for most of the film.
The wolf armour! So fantastic. Like a flayed body. House Bolton eat yer heart out (oh. They might.) Elisabeta's green frock is far more 1550s than 1462 but sets the green tone for the women's costumes for most of the film.
In hiring legendary and brilliant costume designer Eiko Ishioka, Francis Ford Coppola was fulfilling his idea that the sets would be the costumes. We are HUGE fans of her work!!
Tom Waits as Renfield is almost a costume in himself. Keanu's 'English' accent will also always fail every possible metric of measurement.
So: they've decided to set it in 1897 when the book was published. The internal timeline suggests 1889, or 1893. Mina's first green frock is pure late 1880s - high neck, fitted bodice, second bustle period skirt. By 1897, the decade's distinctive gigot sleeves had entered fashion
Keanu is sort of generic late ninteenth century gent, but with the undercut hairstyle every high school boy had at that time
Dracula's double bun semi-samurai granny bun combined with the red trailing robe is one of the most brilliant costumes of the film. It completely reinvented the visual image of the count, which is no easy feat. Mad genius.
Red is - for entirely obvious reasons - Dracula's colour throughout the film, with white for the victim aspect of vampirehood. The colour gets deployed in costumes accordingly.
Here's Mina in her living growing green again, while innocently uninnocent Lucy is marked out for death. Her dress is very pretty, but who know where or when it's supposed to be?
Now Lucy's in her green evening dress, but it's all snakes and seduction. Still bustled, rather than the bell shaped skirts in fashion at the time. But - her hair is UPPPPP!!!
Now Lucy's in her green evening dress, but it's all snakes and seduction. Still bustled, rather than the bell shaped skirts in fashion at the time. But - her hair is UPPPPP!!!
Now Lucy's in her green evening dress, but it's all snakes and seduction. Still bustled, rather than the bell shaped skirts in fashion at the time. But - her hair is UPPPPP!!!
Always got shades of Sidonia Von Bork (Edward Burne-Jones, 1860) in this dress, which was used so effectively to inspire a costume in Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Always got shades of Sidonia Von Bork (Edward Burne-Jones, 1860) in this dress, which was used so effectively to inspire a costume in Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Always got shades of Sidonia Von Bork (Edward Burne-Jones, 1860) in this dress, which was used so effectively to inspire a costume in Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Our beloved Keanu is so epically wooden. But he provides brilliant homo- and hetero-erotic tension. The vampires brides are stunningly beautiful (waves to young Monica Belluci!) and their vaguely classical, vaguely oriental white (victim) outfits convey timeless seduction
Yay! It's Byzantine Klimt Dracula!! The Byzantine resonance has bigger impact for Dracula as the connection with Constantinople, the heart of Eastern Christianity, but also the Church he rejects. Complicated.

I swear Winona Ryder actually just said 'teddibly'
Yay! It's Byzantine Klimt Dracula!! The Byzantine resonance has bigger impact for Dracula as the connection with Constantinople, the heart of Eastern Christianity, but also the Church he rejects. Complicated.I swear Winona Ryder actually just said 'teddibly'
Yay! It's Byzantine Klimt Dracula!! The Byzantine resonance has bigger impact for Dracula as the connection with Constantinople, the heart of Eastern Christianity, but also the Church he rejects. Complicated.I swear Winona Ryder actually just said 'teddibly'
Yay! It's Byzantine Klimt Dracula!! The Byzantine resonance has bigger impact for Dracula as the connection with Constantinople, the heart of Eastern Christianity, but also the Church he rejects. Complicated.I swear Winona Ryder actually just said 'teddibly'
Lucy Westenra apparently sleeps in a evening outfit Julia Roberts rejected when she did her Rodeo Drive splurge in Pretty Woman.
So now we're in a street secene with lots of possiblity for 1897 fashion. And yet, Mina is still back in the late 1880s, maybe 1890. Why draw on so much else flowing sinuous Art Nouveau but then jump back nearly a decade? All the extras are 1880s too.
So now we're in a street secene with lots of possiblity for 1897 fashion. And yet, Mina is still back in the late 1880s, maybe 1890. Why draw on so much else flowing sinuous Art Nouveau but then jump back nearly a decade? All the extras are 1880s too.
So now we're in a street secene with lots of possiblity for 1897 fashion. And yet, Mina is still back in the late 1880s, maybe 1890. Why draw on so much else flowing sinuous Art Nouveau but then jump back nearly a decade? All the extras are 1880s too.
BUT WHO CARES?? Because this is also Completely Hot Contemporary Dracula time. Obviously his hair is inccurate, but the rest is nice. Grey morning coat, this time the right sinous lines, and yes, the sunglasses are entirely correct. Yum.
BUT WHO CARES?? Because this is also Completely Hot Contemporary Dracula time. Obviously his hair is inccurate, but the rest is nice. Grey morning coat, this time the right sinous lines, and yes, the sunglasses are entirely correct. Yum.
BUT WHO CARES?? Because this is also Completely Hot Contemporary Dracula time. Obviously his hair is inccurate, but the rest is nice. Grey morning coat, this time the right sinous lines, and yes, the sunglasses are entirely correct. Yum.
BUT WHO CARES?? Because this is also Completely Hot Contemporary Dracula time. Obviously his hair is inccurate, but the rest is nice. Grey morning coat, this time the right sinous lines, and yes, the sunglasses are entirely correct. Yum.
Everywhere repeats the idea Ishioka put out about Lucy's wedding dress being inspired by a frill-neck lizard, one of Australia's particular animals. However, this portrait exists and it's a dead ringer. The rest of it is Klimtian again, or rather, Emilie Floge
Everywhere repeats the idea Ishioka put out about Lucy's wedding dress being inspired by a frill-neck lizard, one of Australia's particular animals. However, this portrait exists and it's a dead ringer. The rest of it is Klimtian again, or rather, Emilie Floge
Everywhere repeats the idea Ishioka put out about Lucy's wedding dress being inspired by a frill-neck lizard, one of Australia's particular animals. However, this portrait exists and it's a dead ringer. The rest of it is Klimtian again, or rather, Emilie Floge
Everywhere repeats the idea Ishioka put out about Lucy's wedding dress being inspired by a frill-neck lizard, one of Australia's particular animals. However, this portrait exists and it's a dead ringer. The rest of it is Klimtian again, or rather, Emilie Floge
Everywhere repeats the idea Ishioka put out about Lucy's wedding dress being inspired by a frill-neck lizard, one of Australia's particular animals. However, this portrait exists and it's a dead ringer. The rest of it is Klimtian again, or rather, Emilie Floge
(have save that portrait and its details so many times, but they are never at hand when needed, like now. Possibly Dutch, late 16th century?)
Naught Mina is wearing red with Dracula, and her hair is pseudo-medieval. Her frockage is *still* 1880s, though of course, utterly fabulous.
Naught Mina is wearing red with Dracula, and her hair is pseudo-medieval. Her frockage is *still* 1880s, though of course, utterly fabulous.
Naught Mina is wearing red with Dracula, and her hair is pseudo-medieval. Her frockage is *still* 1880s, though of course, utterly fabulous.
Naught Mina is wearing red with Dracula, and her hair is pseudo-medieval. Her frockage is *still* 1880s, though of course, utterly fabulous.
Frocks like this are why the red dress in Enola Holmes is problematic - far too evening, definitely age inappropriate https://twitter.com/mimicofmodes/status/1317989389281132544?s=20
*Naughty Mina. The central computer's keyboard is somewhat on the antique side.

Lucy also sleeps in Disco Fortuny, but can't find a picture.
Jeez, she can't even get into the 1890s for her wedding
Lucy, however, is wearing 1642 Dutch fashion for her death-wedding. Yes, found the reference! By Michael Conrad Hirt. Here's another version and a similar style of the time.
Lucy, however, is wearing 1642 Dutch fashion for her death-wedding. Yes, found the reference! By Michael Conrad Hirt. Here's another version and a similar style of the time.
Lucy, however, is wearing 1642 Dutch fashion for her death-wedding. Yes, found the reference! By Michael Conrad Hirt. Here's another version and a similar style of the time.
Lucy, however, is wearing 1642 Dutch fashion for her death-wedding. Yes, found the reference! By Michael Conrad Hirt. Here's another version and a similar style of the time.
Heh. Can't find a pic but Mina sleeps in a pure, unadulterated, white ruffly Running Away From A Gothic Castle nightgown. https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/978288654165708800?s=20
(phew. This is tiring. Not even dealing with costume of the Three Lovesick Stooges)
Ah, now Mina has changed into her delicious green velvet dress. Shade of medieval, shades of Scarlett O'Hara, shade of an actual 1890s frock with those sleeves I know I saw once but can't find.
Ah, now Mina has changed into her delicious green velvet dress. Shade of medieval, shades of Scarlett O'Hara, shade of an actual 1890s frock with those sleeves I know I saw once but can't find.
Ah, now Mina has changed into her delicious green velvet dress. Shade of medieval, shades of Scarlett O'Hara, shade of an actual 1890s frock with those sleeves I know I saw once but can't find.
Ah, now Mina has changed into her delicious green velvet dress. Shade of medieval, shades of Scarlett O'Hara, shade of an actual 1890s frock with those sleeves I know I saw once but can't find.
Ah, now Mina has changed into her delicious green velvet dress. Shade of medieval, shades of Scarlett O'Hara, shade of an actual 1890s frock with those sleeves I know I saw once but can't find.
With the curvy waistline and Art Nouveau lines it's her most 1890s dress yet. The deepening green is Intense Mina, but not yet red. She's bringing her best Reincarnated Princess game.
Byzantine Klimt Dracula is back, and he's not happy. Maybe it's because Our Heroes got blood on his very expensive gold coffin-lounging robes
And credits!! Happy Hallowe'en. Now back to strictly Regency.
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