#the gilded age

Actors who share post-nap improv videos are so generous. Like yes, roll over and make me smile. You absolute nerd.

must a show have a plot? is it not enough to have milves

LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT THIS.

The upper image is from the finale of The Gilded Age. The lower image is one I took at the Fenimore after we finished installing my fashion exhibition, Elegant New York.

You have to understand, when you work at a museum, and particularly if you work in the collections, you develop this feeling of ownership of the objects. You’re the only one(s) who gets to touch them, move them around, take them out of boxes. In a lot of cases, you’re the only one who’s seen certain pieces because they don’t come out of storage. This dress is one that was featured on a Tumblr a past curatorial fellow made in like 2014, but is not some famous 1880s couture piece the amateur costumers always include in their imageboards - it’s actually by an Albany dressmaker named M. J. Delamater.

So this is like the equivalent of a showrunner finding your fanart - you in this scenario are not a BNF fanartist but just a rando who happens to draw well - and including a scene in the show where the main characters do the exact pose from the fanart, in the same clothes and with the same hairstyles, and nobody mentions it because nobody realizes it’s an homage to your little piece of fanart at all!

And also, this is just more proof that the show’s costuming is absolutely perfect! How many other gowns happen to be perfect replicas of unknown originals floating around on the internet?

AlsoDandies & Dandyzettes is live but I can’t even pay attention to that right now

connieallenbury:

George & Bertha+kisses

sharkswithsocks:

True love is whatever the hell the Russells from The Gilded Age have going on

getthesamovarready:

The Russells are a very sexy couple doing very sexy power-hungry things being sexy while they kick everyone else’s unsexy snobbish asses.

tomcraweley:

I think The Gilded Age costumes referenced these…

whartonists:

What is the trippiest aspect about working on a period piece like The Gilded Age?

[Claybourne Elder:] I started filming The Gilded Age in November of 2020, before vaccinations had come out and when we were always wearing masks everywhere. On my first day of shooting, I showed up, got dressed in my 19th century duds and got on set with Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski. But when we rehearsed the scenes, we kept our masks on. Which meant that the first time I saw their faces, two women who both intimidate and inspire me, was when the cameras were rolling. It felt like an alternate reality or a dream. I was really stuck in my head for the first few takes thinking “what the hell is going on and why is Christine Baranski talking to me??”

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PERIOD DRAMA WEEK 2022

Day 3: Favorite costumes

The Gilded Age (HBO) designer Kasia Walicka-Maimone