Just finished Netflix binge watching The Paradise.

Credit for the photo and info on the show here.
I liked it. The show features the above girl, Denise as she leaves her small town to work in a large department store (a new concept in the 1870’s). There were some interesting plot lines and some cool characters but we all know why I watched it…costumes! Some were really pretty and to my eye, good theatrical representations of what might have been worn. I did have trouble with Miss Glendenning. Some of her dresses in season one…they were often white with extremely strong contrasting colors in them.

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They were so strong that it seemed like modern polyester material. It probably was modern polyester but it shouldn’t have looked like it! I also had some issues with the actress-seemed too old for the part of a young heiress in the 1870’s looking for a husband (in season one). They married her off in season two and that suited better.