Are 'Enola Holmes' (2020) Costumes Historically Accurate?

I know they're nOt SuPpOSeD tO bE but it's fun to analyze them!
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sorry if it came off as a bit of a roast, it's a sweet movie and the costumes weren't actually bad

[ivoryabner]

"all the extras are out there wearing full on 1880's gowns and she's out there looking like a snack, except it's a 1900's snack" lol

[torbjornkallstrom]

I think Enolas moms dresses are from the Helena Bonham Carter-era

[jackytumbles]

Every movie with a corset they have to show how "painful" it was putting it on. 100 years from now when they do a period piece movie of 2020 there will be scenes of someone struggling to tighten their bra, in pain buttoning their pants and nearly in tears tying their shoes😂

[bharathi]

imagine someone from the future doing this same exact thing with 2000s / 2010s fashion like "ooo a neon puffer jacket that is so 2019"

[texaspoontappa]

Enolas dresses were beautiful but there's no way she'd blend in as a "lady" with that neckline

[lessy]

As an Enola Holmes book reader, she wears her corset loose on purpose to stuff all her belongings in it and to be able to move more comfortably, aka it’s done on purpose :)

[bernadettebanner]

I came here *so fast*

-mostly just for a roast of that red dress tbh-

[facesncharcoal]

As soon as Enola was like “corsets are a sign of oppression” I could hear Karolina fuming in the distance

[mattc]

The most important question here is: why aren't these production companies hiring you?

[pocketluna]

In the books, Enola wore out of date clothing quite often. In addition, in the scene where she acquires the corset and red dress, she is in a used clothing shop so it makes sense that her clothing is out of date rather dramatically.

[helenabrincker]

sorry but we don't question Helena Boham Carter's hair in this house





it is what it is

[lillieb]

Lol imagine in a couple hundred years there’s a movie set in the 2020s and a fashion historian saying things like “No, moustaches and galaxy print is mid 2010s, you can’t mix it up with low rise jeans from the early 2000s what is this madness!”

[steviebea]

karolina, a professional: some of them look 1830s, some of them look 1870, it’s really hard to see what they’re going for

me, illiterate, mouth full of pizza in bed at 4 in the afternoon: yeah what a rookie mistake

[mrs.marken]

I’m honestly okay with older characters wearing older fashions. I’ve seen so many older ladies wearing things that would belong in the 50s/60s. Not to mention the cost of keeping up with the changing styles. This means that poorer people would also be behind the times, fashion wise. Everyone in a movie wearing the same year’s fashion doesn’t check out for me. Granted, when has that ever happened? But I totally agree about when styles go “into the future”. Pick a date, don’t go past that!

[carmendelcastillo]

This might sound crazy, but hear me out, low rise jeans are the true enemy of women.

[mj-yovt]

Me: not knowing absolutely nothing about historical fashion
Also me: ahhh yes 20 minutes of Karolina explaining the difference between 1890 and 1880 fashion

[bodyofhope]

Millie Bobbie Brown was the producer. There will probably be a follow-up film, so you should absolutely reach out to her, and offer your consulting services for the next Enola Holmes!! 🙂

[kyleg]

Henry Cavill is 37, but playing a "younger" Sherlock, so probably closer to 30. We know Sherlock Holmes was born in 1857, so the movie probably should take place in the mid 1880s. The Anglo-Afghan War ends in 1880, putting the Marquess' father's death sometime before 1881 when his uncle would have returned from the war. The reform bill talked about should be either the 1884 Representation of the People Act (this was debated/passed in the late fall/winter) or the 1885 Redistribution of Seats Act (passed in early summer, so probably the more likely candidate). The issue comes with the suffragettes, who would not begin violent protests in the real world until the late aughts, though they were around in the 1880s.

[AnanasZombie]

May I point out the She brings the young man to her room. Alone. Without a chaperone. And they sit on THE SAME BED. THE INDECENCY.
Edit: Yeah, she might not know how to behave, BUT THE BLOKE MOST CERTAINLY DOES BECAUSE HE IS AN EDUCATED INDIVIDUAL