sylviatietjens: This weekend the BBC’s new 5 part costume drama Parade’s End starts. Set in the...

sylviatietjens:

This weekend the BBC’s new 5 part costume drama Parade’s End starts. Set in the Edwardian/First World War period it’s the BBC’s Sunday night rival to Downton Abbey. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebbeca Hall and an amazing cast list full of great British actors. The screenplay is by Tom Stoppard and the BBC made the miniseries with HBO so the production values are bound to be high and therefore a real treat for fans of period drama.

Here are some of the clothes that we hired to the series. Of course as we’ve not seen it yet we can’t be sure if any of them will actually appear in the final cut, but keep a look out for them on the principal actors. All of the clothes are, or nearly are 100 years old now and the pieces below all reflect the Edwardian period perfectly.

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