Top 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Costumes in Movies
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Date: 2023-11-20
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fabsdolls
Dirty dancing: short shorts were popular beach attire since the 50's so Baby could totally have worn them, the only weird thing is that hers have that distressed turn-up.
Pride&prejudice is set in 1811 (more precisely from fall 1811 into summer 1812. You could have choose EVERYTHING else since nothing about that movie is historically correct.
Pearl Harbor: since the Great Depression stockings became less and less available/pricier and women started painting their legs darker and drawing the seam on the back of their legs.
Amadeus is NOTORIOUS to be one of the worst historically accurate movie to exist. Most of the dresses have back lacing which was unheard of in eighteen century! I'm not even starting about the synthetic materials used.
Pompeii: the purple you're referring to is not THAT purple he is wearing (leaning towards blue and historically achieved with plants like indigo) but a deep violet-red kind of color used firstly by Phoenicians.
The last samurai: samurai wore those kind or armors well into nineteenth century. As the movie is set during Satsuma's rebellion (1877) there are lots of historical artifacts regarding those times including pictures and paintings of samurai in those armors.
Django unchained: the first pair of sunglasses was made in 18th century and even if they weren't mainstream they were used by some in the 19th century. Initially because they were thought to help syphilis related problems and later, you guessed it, protect from the sun. The style Django i8s wearing are actually very similar to all the victorian era sunglasses I've seen.
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Dirty dancing: short shorts were popular beach attire since the 50's so Baby could totally have worn them, the only weird thing is that hers have that distressed turn-up.
Pride&prejudice is set in 1811 (more precisely from fall 1811 into summer 1812. You could have choose EVERYTHING else since nothing about that movie is historically correct.
Pearl Harbor: since the Great Depression stockings became less and less available/pricier and women started painting their legs darker and drawing the seam on the back of their legs.
Amadeus is NOTORIOUS to be one of the worst historically accurate movie to exist. Most of the dresses have back lacing which was unheard of in eighteen century! I'm not even starting about the synthetic materials used.
Pompeii: the purple you're referring to is not THAT purple he is wearing (leaning towards blue and historically achieved with plants like indigo) but a deep violet-red kind of color used firstly by Phoenicians.
The last samurai: samurai wore those kind or armors well into nineteenth century. As the movie is set during Satsuma's rebellion (1877) there are lots of historical artifacts regarding those times including pictures and paintings of samurai in those armors.
Django unchained: the first pair of sunglasses was made in 18th century and even if they weren't mainstream they were used by some in the 19th century. Initially because they were thought to help syphilis related problems and later, you guessed it, protect from the sun. The style Django i8s wearing are actually very similar to all the victorian era sunglasses I've seen.
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John
Totally agree about Braveheart. Only redeeming feature of it is that there is almost no real detail about Wallace's life; it's all taken from later ballads and stories made up long after the fact, so the whole thing is a fantasy, just like Amadeus' fright wigs are excusable since the whole thing is mad Salieri's viewpoint. And finally someone calling out Dirty Dancing! I was a kid and remember exactly what people wore then; those shorts AND the tank top were WAY overboard and would have been perceived as grossly inappropriate. Baby's father would have given her crap long before the Penny incident (in fact, I never understood how her parents could have not seen or tolerated her behavior for so long up to that point--talk about projection back from the swinging 80s on to the far more repressed early 60s.
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Totally agree about Braveheart. Only redeeming feature of it is that there is almost no real detail about Wallace's life; it's all taken from later ballads and stories made up long after the fact, so the whole thing is a fantasy, just like Amadeus' fright wigs are excusable since the whole thing is mad Salieri's viewpoint. And finally someone calling out Dirty Dancing! I was a kid and remember exactly what people wore then; those shorts AND the tank top were WAY overboard and would have been perceived as grossly inappropriate. Baby's father would have given her crap long before the Penny incident (in fact, I never understood how her parents could have not seen or tolerated her behavior for so long up to that point--talk about projection back from the swinging 80s on to the far more repressed early 60s.
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Mandy
For Number 10 you say Nazi Medals but you dont point out which medals. The clips you show are so short I can only see one type of medal. Both the SS Officer in the black uniform and the uniform Harrison Ford is wearing have a sash in a button hole. This would indicate that the wearer had been awarded the Iron Cross Second Class. (Only if awarded First Class or above would you wear the actual cross. For Second Class the recipient wore the actual cross only on the day it was awarded) But the Iron Cross was awarded during World War 1, and it even pre-dates that war. So it would not be historically inaccurate for the time of the movie. I would like to know exactly which historically inaccurate medals you are referring to.
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For Number 10 you say Nazi Medals but you dont point out which medals. The clips you show are so short I can only see one type of medal. Both the SS Officer in the black uniform and the uniform Harrison Ford is wearing have a sash in a button hole. This would indicate that the wearer had been awarded the Iron Cross Second Class. (Only if awarded First Class or above would you wear the actual cross. For Second Class the recipient wore the actual cross only on the day it was awarded) But the Iron Cross was awarded during World War 1, and it even pre-dates that war. So it would not be historically inaccurate for the time of the movie. I would like to know exactly which historically inaccurate medals you are referring to.
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Pope
The most egregious example of wrong costume is the movie 1941. An 18 year old boy dresses up as a Marine first sergeant to get into a military dance.
1) First sergeants are usually 40 years old. He would have been sniffed out in a second and Marines would have beaten him to a pulp for trying that.
2) The boy had long hair. NO American male had long hair in 1941. That was a good way to not only be snubbed by everyone, in many parts of the country you would get a beating, then dragged to a barber for a crew cut.
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The most egregious example of wrong costume is the movie 1941. An 18 year old boy dresses up as a Marine first sergeant to get into a military dance.
1) First sergeants are usually 40 years old. He would have been sniffed out in a second and Marines would have beaten him to a pulp for trying that.
2) The boy had long hair. NO American male had long hair in 1941. That was a good way to not only be snubbed by everyone, in many parts of the country you would get a beating, then dragged to a barber for a crew cut.
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R.
The most historically inaccurate costuming in all Hollywood movies is, how all the costumes of the the poor and common folk are so pristine with no dirt, tears or mending. Does not matter the movie, this is always true. Sorry, but for most of human history clothes were one of the most expensive items anybody owned and they did not own much clothing. Work was hard on clothes and their clothes would have been considered very decrepit today. Only the very rich would have had clothes without stains, fading, and mending.
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The most historically inaccurate costuming in all Hollywood movies is, how all the costumes of the the poor and common folk are so pristine with no dirt, tears or mending. Does not matter the movie, this is always true. Sorry, but for most of human history clothes were one of the most expensive items anybody owned and they did not own much clothing. Work was hard on clothes and their clothes would have been considered very decrepit today. Only the very rich would have had clothes without stains, fading, and mending.
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Navy-Ink
Even though it is a fairy tale setting I was hoping the Disney live-action remake would be mentioned. Yes, it is a fairy tale setting but they did give a probable time for which the movie takes place. Belle's ball gown does not fit into the setting, it has an invisible zipper when it shouldn't and her jewelry does not fit that time either. The did not exist yet and they really can not say she would not wear a corset because Belle would wear one. They are not torture.
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Even though it is a fairy tale setting I was hoping the Disney live-action remake would be mentioned. Yes, it is a fairy tale setting but they did give a probable time for which the movie takes place. Belle's ball gown does not fit into the setting, it has an invisible zipper when it shouldn't and her jewelry does not fit that time either. The did not exist yet and they really can not say she would not wear a corset because Belle would wear one. They are not torture.
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chardtomp
Most classic westerns are full of costume inaccuracies. The most common one is men's pants with belt loops. Those weren't common until after WW1. Before the 1920s men's pants were held up with suspenders and also typically had a single cinch strap in back for tightening the waist. Also, the hats are usually 20th century style cowboy hats that differ quite a bit from the ones actually worn by cowboys in the 19th century.
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Most classic westerns are full of costume inaccuracies. The most common one is men's pants with belt loops. Those weren't common until after WW1. Before the 1920s men's pants were held up with suspenders and also typically had a single cinch strap in back for tightening the waist. Also, the hats are usually 20th century style cowboy hats that differ quite a bit from the ones actually worn by cowboys in the 19th century.
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John
The claim that shorts shorts wouldn't have existed in 1962 for Dirty Dancing is entirely wrong. The hit song, Who Wears Short-Shorts, debuted in 1957 plus that fact that movie starlets had been wearing short-shorts for cheesecake photos at least as far back as World War II. What you are referring to short-shorts in the 1970's were called Hot Pants and they rekindled the short-short craze.
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The claim that shorts shorts wouldn't have existed in 1962 for Dirty Dancing is entirely wrong. The hit song, Who Wears Short-Shorts, debuted in 1957 plus that fact that movie starlets had been wearing short-shorts for cheesecake photos at least as far back as World War II. What you are referring to short-shorts in the 1970's were called Hot Pants and they rekindled the short-short craze.
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Sarah
Fighting over nylons in ww2 come one they suck. The nylons will get runs or holes like 5 days after you wear them. You have buy another after 5 days. And wardrobe munfuction you get like 20 times. I wear dresses with leggings I 9 wardrobe munfuction it is better than nylons that tear up. five days after you buy them. My leggings have 9 I have to get rid of not as tights or nylons
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Fighting over nylons in ww2 come one they suck. The nylons will get runs or holes like 5 days after you wear them. You have buy another after 5 days. And wardrobe munfuction you get like 20 times. I wear dresses with leggings I 9 wardrobe munfuction it is better than nylons that tear up. five days after you buy them. My leggings have 9 I have to get rid of not as tights or nylons
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kev
The thing all historical ( pre tudor era) movies & series all get wrong is the buckles, Celtic Roman Saxon Viking Norman medieval, always get the buckles completely wrong,
The central bar where the pin is attached on modern buckles didn't start until Tudor era.
Before that they were single loop buckles, D shaped with thd pin attached to the straight part of the D.
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The thing all historical ( pre tudor era) movies & series all get wrong is the buckles, Celtic Roman Saxon Viking Norman medieval, always get the buckles completely wrong,
The central bar where the pin is attached on modern buckles didn't start until Tudor era.
Before that they were single loop buckles, D shaped with thd pin attached to the straight part of the D.
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Warfighter
I mean we can get into a year old discussion about how shit the costumes were in Braveheart, Mel Gibson is a complete dick only focused on making it out as though England was beaten by another skirt wearing tribe. When in reality Scotland had its own knights, and its armor and equipment was literally identical to the English, alongside their military.
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I mean we can get into a year old discussion about how shit the costumes were in Braveheart, Mel Gibson is a complete dick only focused on making it out as though England was beaten by another skirt wearing tribe. When in reality Scotland had its own knights, and its armor and equipment was literally identical to the English, alongside their military.
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Cati
Re: Django Unchained; sunglasses may not have been mass-produced back then, but there are some smoky quartz sunglasses from China that have a similar design/look to Django's (and they are dated anywhere from the 12th century to 1810. Even though Django's are a throwback to spaghetti westerns, it's still very possible for those glasses to have existed. (-:
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Re: Django Unchained; sunglasses may not have been mass-produced back then, but there are some smoky quartz sunglasses from China that have a similar design/look to Django's (and they are dated anywhere from the 12th century to 1810. Even though Django's are a throwback to spaghetti westerns, it's still very possible for those glasses to have existed. (-:
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olga13
You're wrong about denim shorts. I was a teenager in the 60s, and when a pair of jeans got worn, we would cut off the legs and make shorts. I have pictures to prove it, but you can't put pictures up here. Anyway, Baby's shorts are run on the money. Her hair, however, was very 80s. In the 60s, she would have been trying to straighten it.
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You're wrong about denim shorts. I was a teenager in the 60s, and when a pair of jeans got worn, we would cut off the legs and make shorts. I have pictures to prove it, but you can't put pictures up here. Anyway, Baby's shorts are run on the money. Her hair, however, was very 80s. In the 60s, she would have been trying to straighten it.
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Brian
Spot on. These films didn't pay attention to details and the misses were noticed. The Other Boleyn Girl mucked up the history as well. Women in the 40s did not go out without stockings. Zippers are a frequent offender in multiple movies. Movies rarely get armour correct but they sometimes do.
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Spot on. These films didn't pay attention to details and the misses were noticed. The Other Boleyn Girl mucked up the history as well. Women in the 40s did not go out without stockings. Zippers are a frequent offender in multiple movies. Movies rarely get armour correct but they sometimes do.
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Vanity
I feel like Baby started out wearing the normal garb of the time. Then when she started hanging out with Johnny and the other dancers and Penny, her style changed and got a bit more up to date and risky. That outfit in that scene is iconic and she looks amazing in it.
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I feel like Baby started out wearing the normal garb of the time. Then when she started hanging out with Johnny and the other dancers and Penny, her style changed and got a bit more up to date and risky. That outfit in that scene is iconic and she looks amazing in it.
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Lili1127
French hoods becoming headbands in The Other Boleyn Girl was not a new thing, though. Tudor dramas had been doing that for decades before that Anne of the 1000 days, Six Wives of Henry VIII, etc. So they could also be on the list along with The Other Boleyn Girl.
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French hoods becoming headbands in The Other Boleyn Girl was not a new thing, though. Tudor dramas had been doing that for decades before that Anne of the 1000 days, Six Wives of Henry VIII, etc. So they could also be on the list along with The Other Boleyn Girl.
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Vivi
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Pride and prejudice is actually perfect in costumes, and the narrator got the date wrong: the empire waist is more commonly used in the early 19th century, and saying 1790s is very wrong, as clothing from 1790 was completely different from clothing in 1795
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Pride and prejudice is actually perfect in costumes, and the narrator got the date wrong: the empire waist is more commonly used in the early 19th century, and saying 1790s is very wrong, as clothing from 1790 was completely different from clothing in 1795
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Jaron
An inaccuracy that disturbers me already for a long time is in Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury. When Bruce is going to fight the Japanese school, the Japanese that wear a hakama (trouser-dress) wear it wrong. The back of the hakama sits at front, looking ridiculously.
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An inaccuracy that disturbers me already for a long time is in Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury. When Bruce is going to fight the Japanese school, the Japanese that wear a hakama (trouser-dress) wear it wrong. The back of the hakama sits at front, looking ridiculously.
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David
Everything in Braveheart was historically wrong.
Wallace was a knight. He would've been wearing armor.
The absolute WORST thing about the movie was the depiction of the battle of Stirling Bridge. In the movie, they showed the battle WITHOUT A BRIDGE!
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Everything in Braveheart was historically wrong.
Wallace was a knight. He would've been wearing armor.
The absolute WORST thing about the movie was the depiction of the battle of Stirling Bridge. In the movie, they showed the battle WITHOUT A BRIDGE!
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mayder
. which in reality they didnt like having their power Taken away. Replace which with an appropriate subordinating conjunction. Like because? If one is going to make a vid clip about careless mistakes, check the script for ones own errors.
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. which in reality they didnt like having their power Taken away. Replace which with an appropriate subordinating conjunction. Like because? If one is going to make a vid clip about careless mistakes, check the script for ones own errors.
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Fernanda
Really ms mojo your going to say what inaccurate when you people say well ok i will give an example ms mojo say little women 2019 is historically accurate just stop making theses videos if you dont know what your doing just stop
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Really ms mojo your going to say what inaccurate when you people say well ok i will give an example ms mojo say little women 2019 is historically accurate just stop making theses videos if you dont know what your doing just stop
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JONATHAN
The t. v. series Happy Days always bothered me. They started off pretty authentic, but when it became a hit, they didn't even try. Guys wearing big 70's bell bottoms and blow dried or Brady Bunch permed hair.
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The t. v. series Happy Days always bothered me. They started off pretty authentic, but when it became a hit, they didn't even try. Guys wearing big 70's bell bottoms and blow dried or Brady Bunch permed hair.
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Sara
You are right that purple dye was for the emperors but Titus was the emperor when the Pompeii erupted not Nero. Although I have not seen the film so maybe this scene was set little over a decade in the past.
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You are right that purple dye was for the emperors but Titus was the emperor when the Pompeii erupted not Nero. Although I have not seen the film so maybe this scene was set little over a decade in the past.
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Anouk
Actually, Greek aristocrats were allowed to have a but of purple at the end of their togas. Even though its still wrong in the movie, it was somewhat legal to wear purple but only people of certain status.
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Actually, Greek aristocrats were allowed to have a but of purple at the end of their togas. Even though its still wrong in the movie, it was somewhat legal to wear purple but only people of certain status.
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Beffers2706
There is a more historically inaccurate costume in Pearl Harbour. At one point Kate Beckensale's character wear a bikini. The film is set in 1941 and the bikini was not invented until 1946.
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There is a more historically inaccurate costume in Pearl Harbour. At one point Kate Beckensale's character wear a bikini. The film is set in 1941 and the bikini was not invented until 1946.
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Cherilyn
Women used leg makeup during WW2. They even drew lines up the back of the leg to imitate the seam that nylons had. The colors available were the same colors as nylons.
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Women used leg makeup during WW2. They even drew lines up the back of the leg to imitate the seam that nylons had. The colors available were the same colors as nylons.
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clara
A lot of care was taken to make the Indianan Jones movies as historically accurate as possible. HAHAHAHAHAHA! So what was the Afrika Korps doing in Egypt in the 1930s?
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A lot of care was taken to make the Indianan Jones movies as historically accurate as possible. HAHAHAHAHAHA! So what was the Afrika Korps doing in Egypt in the 1930s?
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tom
The biggest problem in Dirty Dancing was that Patrick Swayze who was 35 at the time played a character that was about 20. And you could see it. And Jennifer Grey was 28!
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The biggest problem in Dirty Dancing was that Patrick Swayze who was 35 at the time played a character that was about 20. And you could see it. And Jennifer Grey was 28!
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fanjoy
MsMojo: we will not be counting production errors that weren't supposed to be seen on camera
Also MsMojo: goes on to mention some zippers that are barely visible
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MsMojo: we will not be counting production errors that weren't supposed to be seen on camera
Also MsMojo: goes on to mention some zippers that are barely visible
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Kev
I've always thought that the car driving across the background during the battle scene and the extras wearing sunglasses were the most inaccurate things in Brave Heart!
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I've always thought that the car driving across the background during the battle scene and the extras wearing sunglasses were the most inaccurate things in Brave Heart!
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