I’m not sure since I haven’t watched the episode yet but the woman standing to the left of Jane Seymour in the first episode of Wolf Hall‘s second season might be wearing this dress. I need to take a closer look when I can get my hands on the episode. The damage(?) to the bodice looks quite a bit like it and the sleeves could be the same too. But yeah I need more detailed pictures to be sure.
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The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
Costume seen on Juno Temple as Jane Boleyn (née Parker), Viscountess Rochford
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The Tudors
2009
Costume seen on Emma Hamilton as Anne Stanhope
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The Tudors
2010
Costume seen on Sarah Bolger as Princess Mary Tudor
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The Last Days of Anne Boleyn
2013
Costume seen on Tara Breathnach as Anne Boleyn
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The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII
2014
Costume seen on the cover of an Amy Licence novel
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Lore: Elizabeth Bathory: Mirror, Mirror
2018
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I’m not sure since I haven’t watched the episode yet but the woman standing to the left of Jane Seymour in the first episode of Wolf Hall‘s second season might be wearing this dress. I need to take a closer look when I can get my hands on the episode. The damage(?) to the bodice looks quite a bit like it and the sleeves could be the same too. But yeah I need more detailed pictures to be sure.
I’m pretty confident that you are correct on this one!
Unfortunately, she is only in this scene in the first episode, so I might wait to submit it until we see her again and hopefully more clearly. If they follow the first season’s example, they won’t have many costumes for each character which makes it more likely to appear again. After looking through the credits, I’m also already pretty sure the actress is Viola Prettejohn who plays Mary FitzRoy.
I agree, it’s gonna show up again. We didn’t get the show over here, so I am searching for a way to find it. Haha..
From what I read the US will get in March. I had to use a VPN myself to access the BBC since God knows when this show comes to Germany…if it ever does. I mean they did air the first season years ago but who knows if they will buy the rights to the second one.
I’ve been considering a VPN as well. What do you use, if you mind my asking? NORD?
Yes, I’ve used Nord in the past and it worked for my purposes. There are probably cheaper and maybe even better once out there but I’ve had no complains about Nord so far.
Btw the dress does appear again in the second episode and I managed to get a screenshot. Will submitt my suggested edit in a moment.
Thank you!
Thanks! I am gonna do some bodice comparisons and see where I wind up.
I don’t know why this rather simple dress is one that I can’t forget but maybe that’s a good thing since I just spotted it in the documentary series Henry VIII: Man, Monarch, Monster.
Nice! Just saw the submission, thank you! And was the documentary worth watching?
It was okay but it wasn’t great in my opinion. If you already know the basics then you won’t miss a thing by skipping it. Also for a man known for being married six times, his wives feature barely at all. Well the only thing you might miss is the dresses of Catherine or Aragon and Katheryn Howard which look familiar but I can’t place where I might have seen them before (I’m sure it’s not The Tudors as the style is more BBC drama leaning like something out of Wolf Hall). But otherwise skip it unless you have ~3 hours to kill and an empty watch list.
What do you think of this costume — is it the same? It’s from Lucy Worsley’s Six Wives of Henry VIII: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2016/11/25/JS114579827-lucy-worsley-six-wives-xlarge_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq1N-0BbrGahnullJmqzE3f79t1Pg2VDixv7okYcOWKLU.jpg
To me it seems like the patterned ribbon across the bodice looks quite different from the dress in the Tudors and The Last Days of Anne Boleyn, but the color and shape of the bodice look pretty close. I suppose it could have been heavily altered again.
I thought so at first, because they could have covered the ribbon with a different ribbon. However, I think there is another brown velvet Tudor dress floating around that may also be a contender, so I will need to dig that up…but I think it’s a good bet that this is the same dress.
This is the same brown tudor dress, the bodice furnishings are exactly alike, notice the sides especially. the fur sleeves are also the same. it is worn on the tudors s3, 2009 by tamsin merchant as katherine howard. it appears a line of pearls was added later for its reuse in lucy worsley’s six wives of henry VIII. ( it is not the same dress as the top of the page ). https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b86925b69f8829093e0d823f125706e87e5527f1338676d9e94d4c447f17ddce.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7a7c6b9574d3cc81966e4d1bf4614260fc8f8e5707c0f2bc4699b8578a36bdf1.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f4648dc6e3c65ec9641d86f44460f7f63fb0154a58a58e47d262f629a3da6235.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/820538dc594ee6441f1ae78e4f72aec3b58f4c9e64c0b9ddc2d80df78e78a3b9.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fea7aad071dea5055ad8f6f6dfb32896628e98ed95b4a18fb9364c47e855e7d5.png
Oooh, thank you!
Is it possible that there are two dresses made of that gorgeous – and universally flattering cognac-colored velvet going round? By the short but firm bodice-line I would argue, they both originate from Sandy Powell’s designs for ‘The other Boleyn Girl‘ – and we know she famously had to make a ton of costumes down to the last extra as The Tudors season so and so filmed simultaneously AND had pulled all the period matching costumes (and more…) from the costume houses first. So one dress (for Juno Temple, reused as seen in this entry) has got those very elaborately embroidered cuffed sleeves and heavily jewelled neckline (as fits the character Jane Rochfort in that movie as well as Temple’s flashier status with a speaking role), the other, less ornate one (costume double or costume for an extra?) has gone on – redecorated (?) with broad ribbons along bodice neck- and sidelines- to Cat Howard/Tamzin Merchant in The Tudors (2009), Lauren McQueen’s Katherine Howard in Lucy Worsley’s 2016 docudrama The Secrets of the six Wives and probably – un-trimmed but with pinned-up golden sleeve cuffs – to the lady waiting to Jane Seymour in the new Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the light mentioned by Wardrobe of Time?
PS: Here’ another image of the alleged second dress with (fake?) fur cuffs and broad trimmings as worn in 2016’s docu (that is just swarming with reuses either made or last pulled for Wolf Hall, so maybe it was an accompanying production). It also shows the same skirt and sleeves worn before by Jessica Raine’s Jane Parker/Boleyn/Rochford in said Wolf Hall.

ETA: Sorry, just now saw JAMIE’s comment – AND clicked on the linked pictures… But it would fit the theory of two dresses. Now we just need better/closer images for The Mirror and the Light.
Oh those are nice, thank you!
You’re welcome. I think this is the skirt on ScarJo/ToBg, so, probably one of Sandy Powell’s choices for that movie. No idea if the sleeves are hiding in there too.

oh, thank you!
I agree. This occurred to me just a couple of days that there may be more than one floating around, and they’ve been adored differently.
The dress also shows up in a different color on the book cover of “Margaret Pole, the true story of The Kings Curse” by Susan Higginbotham
Amy Licence – The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Women’s Stories (2014) // It’s a history book, not a novel, and apparently it took the picture from the documentary about Anne Boleyn.
In the Tudors season 3. Anne Stanhope, Countess of Hertford.
Wow, nice! How did you get that?
Even before Sarah Bolger as Mary Tudor, because the trimming in the neckline wasn’t there yet…
Thanks!
I don’t know who find it in “The Other Boleyn Girl”, but it wasn’t me. And I do not want to take the credit for something I didn’t do.
So, whoever you are, you deserve the credit too!!