#historical costumes

Qing Dynasty Chang Yi

The collection of The Palace Museum

Phryne’s fourth outfit of “Framed for Murder” (Season 2, Episode 9) is a beautiful blue velvet coat with a matching cloche, over a black camisole and her classic silk faille pants with bejeweled blue heels.

An elegant follow-up to her gorgeous gold gown, Miss Fisher dons a coat made of an azure blue velvet with marabou down trim on wide lapels. The sleeves also feature the marabou down trim above the elbow before the velvet continues to her forearms and splits at the cuff. The coat is held closed by an ornate enamel buckle costume designer Marion Boyce found in an antique store.

Her hat is a matching blue felt cloche with an antique feather band. According to the official Pinterest:“While we were filming in Queenscliff, Victoria, a stranger donated a selection of her grandmother’s old 1960s hats to our designer. Luckily one of the felt hats matched Phryne’s blue velvet jacket perfectly.”

The hat itself was extended, made deeper, and reshaped to become a cloche. The designers took authentic 1920’s feathers from another hat and added a fascinator made of velvet loops and a metal button.

Underneath, Phryne wears a black silk camisole with scalloped edging and dark wide-legged pants. She accessorizes with navy gloves, teardrop onyx earrings, and glittering navy t-strap heels (seen at the Costume Exhibition here on Dayna’s blog).

Season 2, Episode 9 - “Framed for Murder”

Promotional photos from the official Facebook(x,x,x,x,x) and a variety of sources (x,x). Hat and coat buckle photos (x,x) from the official Pinterest.