!historychads !kino the Kenneth Branagh post today reminded me of something, every modern slop set in the Middle Ages has the same dull brown/black costumes and leather clothing/armor. I chose Chalamet's Henry V as an example.
This is Henry V from the 1944 Laurence Olivier's adaptation. This armor is historically accurate, it has the colors of the Plantagenet sigil (the lion and the Fleur de lys) and is a plate armor which was the type Henry V used. Branagh's adaptation got the colors right but the armor wrong as he wears a mail cloth with leather making it look like a sweater.
Then there are shows like vikings.
Again with the dull brown/gray colors and leather, not to mention those silly haircuts.
The Northman got the viking king armor and attire right.
Finally, and I know it's fantasy, but the later seasons of Game of Thrones had awful costumes, while on early seasons there were colors, by season 7 everybody was wearing black and leather. Jon Snow doesn't even wears a plate armor. Sansa and Cersei were given Darth Vaderesque gowns
Sansa looks like some dominatrix with those ring things.
Here are some early 15th century scenes from a french Illuminated Manuscript to give an idea of what people wore back then.
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weren't dyes and shit still pretty expensive back then?
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It depended on the dye color. Purple, crimson red and dark blue (made with indigo) were expensive, the type of stuff only the nobility and wealthy merchants could afford. Dyes like green and yellow and some other shades of red and blue were cheap.
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