If you zoom in on the inside of the sleeve worn by Jenna and you can see the original scalloped edge tucked up. Perhaps it was modified because it was too big for her?
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If you zoom in on the inside of the sleeve worn by Jenna and you can see the original scalloped edge tucked up. Perhaps it was modified because it was too big for her?
Oh, thank you!
Interesting! Could be a cool new immersive format for the site.
My initial two cents: Little Women shows a whole elaborate matching ensemble. Is there more than the jacket on Victoria? If it’s a single piece, I would tend towards ‘not the exact same piece’ with alterations. Mostly, because I would hope they wouldn’t completely and irreversibly seperate such a sophisticated ensemble. And the would-be alterations on Victorias jacket are… hefty.
Another point could be: ‘Little Women’ is an American studio production, not many more costumes have turned up from over the time. Victoria is a British based TV production, so chances are, costumes might have been drawn from or gone back to different stock’n’store companies.
Maybe there’s an embroidery pattern available or an existant historical garment both costumes might be inspired by?
There is a skirt in Victoria, which I should have uploaded and didn’t. There are two parts to the skirt in Little Women, but it looks like the top portion was removed for Victoria. It’s odd because there is so much similar, but so much difference. But I agree it would be hard for those productions to share costumes…It was just one of those things I spotted and was like “Wait, that’s so similar!” I agree it MUST at the very least be from the same pattern if they are not the same piece.
Took one more look at the patterning and it is largely the same motive but the ‘drawing’ is more neat and spikey on the one in LW, more rounded and a weensy bit undefined on Vicky, so it’s not just a trick of light and thread colouring. The decor follows the same pattern but it’s not the same sample of embroidery. E.g. look at the stem starting the pattern on the faux-lapels – visible on (our) left side: On Amy it blooms from a point into an elegantly curved branch, the flower petals are longer, giving a fuller, wider appearance. On Vicky it seems like a cut-off branch and the leaves and blooms are a bit more compact, leaving an over all roomier, elongated & less tightly packed appearance of the embroidered parts. Still astonishing similarities in the jackets, construction-wise as well. I bet there is a behind-the-scenes story to it that the costumers could chat and wink about.
Thank you so much! This is great!
Pattern of leafs and flowers looks the same on gown, but silk or fadric does not look same on gown
Yeah! Not sure if it is lighting or not. Hard to know!