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- Fashion historian Raissa Bretaña fact checks the historical accuracy of the costumes in Disney's Snow White and The Seven Dwarves. She analyzes the dresses of Snow White and The Evil Queen, and explains every layer of historical dress from German 16th century women and royalty, from undergarments and busks to the their shoes and jewelry.
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lowkey she looks like snow white herself
Exactly what I was thinking!
Exactly
Exactly omg
Sagarika singh yes
So true
Imagine people doing this for our fashion in hundreds of years...
and here is the Gucci label it reflects wealth and status
The unfortunate truth about wealth disparity is that If I can sell Gucci sandals to bank tellers they don't really reflect "wealth and status"
@@futurestoryteller it was a joke
Um... yeah, I know.
Oh, I think I get what you mean, you're saying that what I'm saying is unfair because if you don't mention a brand that is expensive, but one that everybody knows about, then no one will get the joke. - It was really just a digression on my part it's not meant as commentary, just an observation.
not to mention that according to Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth Cline supposedly "high-end" name brand garments now are poorly constructed, as in the tailoring is basic, sometimes flat out unflattering, and the materials can be cheap. This is in sharp contrast to department store suits of the 40s or 50s, where even people who were lower middle class spent a minimum of what is 500-600 USD on a sturdy, high quality suit.
Why Germany?
Because it’s a German fairytale. That’s it.
Most are german.
maybe
Ahh yes! The grimm brothers
I did not know that. And I am Dutch. The beer steins should have been all telling but I never noticed it before.
A lot of fairytales took place in The Black Forest in Germany and the brothers Grimm that wrote this story down in the 19th century were German.
The historian’s own personal style is GORGEOUS 👌🏾. Please make this a regular series of the channel
Kelly Mapatano yes! And I loved that she always match her outfits with the movies, so cute!
The sweater with the Peter Pan collar, 30's short, wavy hair, and the apple brooch - perfection!
*It would be interesting*
To see this done with ALL of the Disney Princesses
It’s already been done with a few of them, but not all.
Duchi how do you have 645 subscribers!?😂
They already did some before this one like Princess and the frog and frozen
Duchi you have 666 likes. I’m not sure if I should like the comment or not 😂
they already did Bell, Tiana, Anna, and Elsa previously.
How did they move with so many layer of clothes? I can barely move with some tight pants.
According to actors in historically accurate period pieces, you actually get used to it. The clothes were also tailored to the person back then.
All the layers would be very thin and loose when compared with modern clothes
First of all, these clothes are what royalty would wear. They didn't move all that much, and if they did, they did it slowly. More common people, even lower ranking nobility, would wear less restrictive and complicated layers.
People pretending that the tightness of the clothes are the point of the post, or that they would be "lightweight" are hilarious.
Everything back then was bespoke. The the garments were closely tailored to the wearer and this was the standard fashion of the time, so thry would have been well versed in how to manage those garments
Disney animators did not care about historical accuracy. They just wanted to be artists.
It's still fun to nickpick
@@marsonsaturn nitpick. I'm sorry but I was an eighth grade English teacher for four years. It's nothing personal. LOL
It is less of a critique more of a oh here’s a cool idea we know that they weren’t made to be accurate so it would be quite cool
ikr, if they did historical accuracy it would be boring and way too realistic, its a fantasy movie (just my opinion).
It happens in Germany.
Proceeds to show some spanish, french, english and italian clothing
Edit: Good Lord! I've never had such ammount of likes in a simple comment. Thank you everybody ❤
Because that was what was in style.
It didn't matter what country you were in, if you were upper-crust, you followed whatever was in style.
The French were by far the most influential when it came to this. For centuries.
@@Melissa-wx4lu yep but the clothing were different specially between UK and France...also in one century they are lots of differents clothes...it isn't the same if its the early years of the century or the last
Smh........
I don’t know anything about fashion but I studied art history and the Italian and French were very influential in terms of what the rest of the artists did stylistically. We could assume that fashion was the same .
Plus fashion influence in the upper class happens now why wouldn’t it happen then ?
@@Caribbeanpiratesrule Fashion would be quite different as a lot of the materials and dyes used for clothing would be affected by regional supplies. There would be influences, but influence does not equate it being the "same". Stylistic choices by the artist would be affected by a plethora of factors, most specifically the literal materials the garment would need. Furthermore cultural styles and religious backgrounds would have their own subtle changes on the fashion. Also, only taking into consideration the highest echelon of fashion completely ignores the variety of styles used by people of the different classes.
I like Snow whites historically accurate clothes more 😂
Hongorzul B Same here, I'm actually part of a reenactment group where at different events, we'd dress in period clothing, oftentines the clothing is made by the people who are wearing the costumes which is referred to as "Garb"
I've actually known a few people in this group that are gifted with the ability to recreate garments like this
It's very pretty. They didn't explain the color variation though. I can guess why, but it's never mentioned when they choose to change the colors
futurestoryteller she explained it a bit more in other videos :)
@@karlsmith2570 There's a whole community of people interested in historical fashion? I'd love to be apart of an 18th century rococo fashion, art and architecture lover group, but I never really looked into it.
Curry in a hurry The group that I'm a part of is into more than just recreating period clothing, they're also into recreating the entire lifestyle of the Medieval period
The group that I'm a part of is called "The Society for Creative Anachronism" or SCA for short
There's actually quite a few videos on CZcams centered around this group if interested in learning more about them
Meanwhile, in the 21st century, everyone just pulls on a shirt and pants, and they’re ready for they day.
This kid over here, suggesting people don't wear underwear.
Don't forget about bikinis
Global warming.... plus rich people probably had way too much free time back then.
Lol ikr, I just pick clothes up off my floor when I get dressed tbh
Clearly you have not seen the routine of an e-girl, my friend.
omg her costume inaccuracies always drove me crazy. But even Snow White's outfit here, is not accurate. This looks more English than it does German. Same for the Queen
kh22912 Actually the queen is the most accurate one of the pair.
Yeah!
Lol im drawing my version of "historically accurate snow white" but I'm basing the clothes off of medici princess dresses
I noticed she keeps using English fashions. Snowhite is German. She should be modeling styles after Anne of Cleves.
That doesn't make much sense. Although she was German, she was Queen of England for much of her life in the public eye.
who knows
@@deneesherpather9686 anne of cleeves was never the queen of england. she anulled the coupling with henry viii right after marriage.
@@deneesherpather9686 Get your facts straight. Anne of Cleves was German and her marriage to king Henry VIII was never consummated and therefor annulled. she remained living in England on a pension awarded her by the King, but she lived the the German Protestant manner to which she was accustomed, rarely ever coming to court. To get the actual facts, Alison Weir is an authority who has written many books n the wives of King Henry VIII! If you don't know what you are speaking of, it's better to say nothing at all!
@@cute_canadian_redhead6747 You are correct, but my statement still remains true. In her time in the public eye (as queen), she was adorned in English fashion.
"The contemporary chronicler Edward Hall recorded the event and praised the new queen so effusively that nobody would guess there was anything amiss. On her time as queen, Edward Hall says: “She was appareiled after the English fashion, with a French hood, which so set forth her beauty and good visage, that every creature rejoiced to behold her.” Also, there is no need to be rude. It doesn't make your argument stronger.
The evil queen looks a lot less evil when she is historically accurate
I think they should have at least keep the color scheme.
And Walt Disney totally understood this. That's why the Queen was not historically accurate.
Fun fact I learned at an art camp once: artists usually use lots of sharp points and triangles to draw villains, and more rounded shapes for heroes. The historically accurate costume for the queen was a lot more rounded (they mention the bum roll but you can also see it in the sleeves) and so it lost some of the power of the stereotypical cartoon villain look
Lmao
Lol right
The Evil Queen’s hair can be seen in the transformation scene to the old woman, she has a long straight black hair.
For the comparison of historical accuracy, it would be more about how her hair is styled and worn, rather then its colour and texture.
LadyJosie in the movie it’s flowing in the air and looks wavy bc she’s transforming and it genuinely has no style
@@brcsephina exactly. We cant really say historical accuracy when the only time we see is is midtransformation.
_A_ long straight black hair? Just one? Gross.
Paul J your comment is so silly and yet so hilarious😂😂😂
This series is almost perfect, all that’s left is replacing this artist! Really it’s not hard finding a better artist, especially someone that draws in Disney style
André Barreto I agree. It would definitely help.
Querendo mandar currículo?
Deadass
Agreed!
When Disney artists were designing characters’ costumes, they did draw in a more fashion design style as is used here, so this is more appropriate than a cartoon animation style.
I’m still so annoyed with the artist render, like there could be soooooooo many more details
Natalie P this was done during the 1930’s, it’s already WAY advanced for its era.
Mycroft Holmes I believe they’re referring to the artist’s rendition of the historically accurate version
justbeyou1239 ohhhhh, if that’s the case: my bad and I agree
She draws horrible
Natalie P harsh
This is extremely English and Spanish-centric, Germany had some distinct fashion differences going on, including the silhouette, favoring a rounded bust and puddle length skirts. I appreciate this series, but there was a lot more going on with fashion than this video shows.
Yes.
I was mostly impressed, compared to other "historic fashion" videos, but you're absolutely right. I waa hoping they'd have remembered it was German and kept the research there.
You're right, but this is so weird. I'm german and I actually can't think of any german women who were important in terms of fashion at that time. Heck, I can barely think of anything that happened in germany at that time (except reformation). It feels like this whole era was very english-, french- and italian-heavy and germany was in an alternate universe.
@@SnorriSnibble The only one I thought of immediatley was Anne of cleves, the fourth wife of henry the 8th.
@@Yumichan62 yeah ok, but as his wife she was technically part of English fashion..
Can you guys do Jasmine ?
OMG YESSSSS
It would be Ancient Arabian and Persian style :)
heyayup I know it would be Ariana style since She’s the first Muslim Princess :D
Aribac*
Please
I’m so happy that the Karolina Zebrowska sewed herself a historically accurate Snow White dress! It’s amazing to see it no only in a drawing, but like... real 🤩 it’s a really gorgeous dress!
Another karolina fan! Hello!!
Why do you refer to Queen Elizabeth if you are talking about German characters?
leen fira the british royal family has german roots
SadBitch101 not in Queen Elizabeth the first’s era
Penny Thomas ya that’s y i said R0öts
SadBitch101 but they relate to after this era so they don’t really need to be mentioned
Yea exp since she had a destinct style...
Omg this is my favorite series! Please do more of this!
I don’t know why, but I feel like I always see you in the comment section🤔
Ari Lopez right
Yeah I love this series too, the titanic one is probs my favourite
wigconic Roses are red, Violets are blue, I see Shane and so do you.
I don’t know if they’ve done this but I’d like to see one with the accuracy of the Gone With the Wind costumes
The make up might fail
Yes!!
This is a great idea, I'm sure if they did it'd get a ton of views, too..!
YES!!!!!!!
Only if they break out Carol Burnett’s curtains at the end.
What they are missing, is that this is a tale that has been passed down by generations of storytellers before it has ever been written down by the brothers Grimm, so we can't know when the story has been told originally
I love these Disney fashion videos but this one was a bit generalised. A lot changed in 100 years! Also if we’re looking at Germany shouldn’t Snow White look more Anne of Cleves than Anne Boleyn?
Before her hair turns gray with her transformation, we get a glimpse of her hair. It’s black too, I think.
Yeah and its really long!
That's correct!
I always figured it was overly simplified for easier drawing. The artists had to hand draw everything so simplifying had to be done along with updating to appeal to the audience.
There's a statue of a medieval queen--in Germany, I think--who looks a lot like the Queen here. It's been suggested that was the direct inspiration for her design.
Shouldn't Snow White have more of a lower class costume? Because in the movie she is basically a maid.
And they said 16. Century, but I don't think that Fashion in the begin, middle and end of the 16. Century was the same.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
And English isn't my native Language , so there could be some grammar and spelling mistakes in my post.
@@gpodjoe9179 I know, but the fact that she was born a princess doesn't change the fact that she's a lower class person during the movie.
That's a really good point! I never even thought about that.
That was a concern I had as well
She was a princess , not a maid. You’re confusing her wit cinderella lol
They show her to have a peasant dress during "I'm Dreaming" when she's scrubbing the steps. I'm assuming her other dress is her public dress so it would be finer.
Waiting for Karolina to approve or disprove this
Omg yesssss
Same! 😃
Who's that?
I'm guessing mostly approve, although she might figure out more specific German fashions and zone in on a decade or so.
Saaame
I always thought that Snow White seemed more medieval than 16th century. I always thought more 1300s or 1400s because outside of the book, tankards, and her sleeves everything else seemed older and more simplistic in design not only because of the animation but the time period the story was taking place.
At 1:10 she mentions actress and inventor Hedi Lamarr, who not only starred in films like The Female Animal and Boom Town, but also created a radio guidance system used in modern Bluetooth and WiFi devices!
21st Century people: "ugh it's so cold, I'm dressed in the onion look!"
16th century people: "hold my farthingale"
these videos are so entertaining and interesting! she is amazing at explaining everything without being boring.
What about the clogs Snow White wears in her maid look? I feel those would be fine but I am not sure.
Chris Pink oh that’s really interesting
brian wears alot of clogs
she's german not dutch haha
@Chris Pink Thanks! I love geeking-out on historical clothing. Are you familiar with Bernadette Banner's channel?czcams.com/channels/SHtaUm-FjUps090S7crO4Q.html
@@ihavenoidea4503 brian may😎😎
I love how her pin changes every episode to match the subject of the video!
03:40 sums it up. The animators are creating art that the audience of the decade can identify with. Cinderella is a 1950s new look. Ariel is the 80s. The new princesses are our current fashion. They might have medieval inspiration… Like any other movie actress of the time, they are meant to accentuate the fashions of the day.
Look at any classic film that was a historical piece, none of the fashion is accurate. It’s their interpretation.
We tried to do a similar analysis of the fashion of the 1990s animated cartoon Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders. And similarly we discovered that the fashion is just really inspired by medieval but is basically the 90s.
But it’s still fun to discuss what it might have looked like.
00:45 👍
I would love to see a version with some of the Disney princes!
Already did that
Love how she is dressed in theme!❤️
I love it that her broach always matches the film.
I love snow whites real look. Love the research that goes into this. And I love the fashion historian's fashion sense too very chic. 😊
I like the idea of this serie but you seem to do your research quite approximately. Please pick a decade and not a whole century for a start, it's misinformation. Like saying in the 1980's they dressed the same as in the 1930's. And the evil queen's dress was inspired by a 15th century gothic statue of a german queen. You completely ignored this interesting fact that makes her dress quite accurate.
mayetta88 well it’s not like she can just ask Walt what decade in the 16th century in which it took place. Also, you might want to do you research on the word “approximately.” I think what you meant was “adequately.”
@@hottestpersonalive6620 Even if she did ask Walt, he wouldn't know since he didn't write the story. They could of picked the year they think it is.
It's very difficult to exactly know when the story of snow white took place. Fairytailes where word of mouth stories because nobody wrote them down (not many people could write at that time). In the 19th century people where very fascinated by a romantic idea of the middle ages and stuff and that was also the time that the brothers Grimm wrote a lot of those stories down. (sorry if my English is bad, i'm Dutch)
YES the fact that they based this time period off of the storybook at the beginning really irked me b/c the evil queen's outfit looks pretty accurate for something, say, at least a century or so earlier!
Also, it might be fairly easy to pinpoint decades of the 18-19-20th centuries as it is a lot more documented, but when it comes 16th century and (especially) earlier periods, you have far less surviving garments and/or manuals of dressmaking. As she explains in the video, paintings are the main sources, which make it a bit more difficult...
waiting for Karolina Żebrowska aka meme mom to go on another rant about this
Where does she do her rants about these?
Amy CZcams
Yea, but also who designated her the authority on all fashion history? Just wondering.
T Spears Research
if you find her analysis wrong you can make your own and claim your throne.....
@Olive this woman might say that she is an actual historian but she really isn't but Karolina is even though she doesn't say it
I adore Raissa! Love watching her, listening to her talk, and hearing how knowledgeable she is about historical fashion!
Seriously recommending you get a new artist to draw the (exact) styles, it’s hard to imagine when the images look elementary :(
She dressed the part as well...love the apple brooch to pull everything together.
I need to see this done with Pride and Prejudice asap!
vlo vlo Yesssss!!
next you should do Aurora I'm curious about that
I... can't stop watching these fashion history videos omg
I love her outfit with the apple pin. perfection.
Can you guys do one for all of Aurora's looks? She's my favorite princess besides Tiana
Her name is Aurora
Please do Mad Men or a period drama TV show next!
Mad M’en is pretty much perfect in this aspect, and the way they show the difference between the early 60s and late 60s is amazing
Eveil queen in normal costume: " MWAHAHAHA"
Evil queen in actual historical accuracy: " hehehehe"
"straight out of the 1930's"
"bUT THIS ISN'T acCURATE EITHER"
Would love to see more of the series, maybe with Mulan
These are some of the best videos on CZcams. The historically accurate info? The great drawings to illustrate the descriptions? And the fact that it’s all about movies we know and love? Perfection.
"great drawings to illustrate the descriptions" - sure glad you put the question mark after that, because it really is questionable.
Please do Tangled next!!!! I want to know if Rapunzel and Mother Gothel’s clothes were accurate in their time period
I saw one of these videos about a year ago when I was just beginning to study history (including historical fashion because i love it!) and I didn't know any of the pieces that it mentions, and now time after I see it again it's beautiful because I understand everything! And I'm like "Sure, the kirtle. How could they forget it?" HAHA
These videos are amazing! We need more fashion videos like this--researched, factual, evidence-based rather than stupid try-on hauls by wannabe bloggers.
I will dispute that we DO see the Queen's hair during her transformation into the Old Hag.
Ryan Monaco honestly I love both, but I do like that we’re getting more of these
Funny, because she doesn’t showed how germans look liked. She showed italian, british and french fashion.
For shoes at the time, Snow White and the Evil Queen would most likely be wearing these flat-heeled, blunt-toed shoes with no difference between right and left. They may have been made of leather, but wealthy people may have preferred silk or velvet.
I’m obsessed with this series and with Raissa!! Patiently awaiting for more videos to come out ❤️🥰
I love it when the historian explains about Snow White's 1930's style
As a fashion history nerd myself I *love* this concept - this is combinng two of my favourite things: Disney princesses and fashion history! Also I'm so pleased to see your fashion historian knows her stuff. I hope we'll see more of her and this series!
1) all the references were english not german.
2) The farthingale is spanish
3) just..ack
do merida & her mother in brave next!!
This is seriously my favorite thing on CZcams. I love this series so much!
*says the movie is based in 16th century germany*
*proceeds to name every other country except germany*
THANK YOU i noticed it myself
They probably should have used Germany a bit more. However a lot of European countries had a lot of borrowed/ similar elements of fashion to each other. So it's probably not that far off.
The explanation is amazing but, Can get better the drawings? Please
I didn’t like t at first but now it just seems like the art of this series
I think I just had a stroke reading this
Seriously, please learn to spell and form correct sentences before criticising someone else. Thank you.
JJ Patterson shut up man
Maaike Quest Or what sweetie?
Okay but I'm kinda confused about the time they are placing Snow White in in this video. Because Snow White (Schneewittchen) was written by the Brother Grim in 1812 and the font they use in the video to explain why the story was place in the 16th century has been used for a very long time not only in 16th century. Even my grandparents had to learn how to write like that. So I'm just really confused about how they came to this conclusion of setting the story in 16th century germany😕 And even if this font was only used in 16th Century (which is not the case) shouldn't the original story be used as reference and not the movie?
Why are you confused that a movie made to sell to the people paying for tickets looked like movie stars at the time? Why is that confusing? They should have tried better, but that wasn't the thing of the day. I hope the current day and future day does better. I vote for better.
I love these, no matter how accurate. Thanks, I'm subscribed.
Really love how you defended the inaccuracy for the sake of costume design and the audience at that time. A lot of times these videos just point out what is wrong with the clothes but have no idea that costume designers and character designers are not too stupid to research but actually make these decisions and have their reasons for it.
Awesome!!! I want to see all the princesses!!!
Narrator: “Are they accurate?”
Me: Of CoUrSe NoT! 🤣
I could watch these all day! Thanks!
I love how the fashion expert is always dressed accordingly to every video's subject. Very nice touch!
Pleaseeee do Merida!!!!!!! I love these so much and are my favorite videos to watch!!
Fun fact belt in german is called Gürtel an it really sounds similar to gurtel (idk how it's spelled)
6:22 Ahhhh that's Anne Boleyn!!!!
I love how they explain how "correct" the costumes are and why, even if not time period accurate. Props for that. Awesome video as always!
I wish they kept more similar colors in the illustrations of the accurate outfits.
Ugh I love the historian's outfit though!!! It's so cute and would be great for a Snow White Disneybound!! 😍💖
What I love about costume design is that it’s a blending of periods. The Queen’s look to me was always a medieval kirtle while Snow White is so 1930s. Starting with Snow White, Disney Princesses are actually often great indication of fashion for the decade they premiered. Cinderella is literally just In a Dior gown.
They did have high heels back in the 16th century. Catherine de Medici, the Queen of France is credited with popularizing the high heel over the more fashionable chopine (platform shoes). And like the dresses, they were lavishly decorated (even though they wouldn’t have been seen)
What I hope to see you do in this series......
Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Aladdin.
I like the accurate dresses a lot, it's so cute!
Love these videos. Keep them coming
I LOVE these types of videos!
Another brilliant video - please do Cinderella next if you haven't already :)
YEEEEEEEEESSSS I LOVE THIS SERIES
More please. Very Informative and Entertaining
I really didnt think I would like this as much as I do, the fashion expert is like super likable and makes it interesting, loves it
I love how Raissa dressed like Snowwhite!!
I would love to see you do Reign. The show about Mary Queen of Scots
That was soo bs clothes wise.
@@Coconutshavebadhair I had to give up 2 episodes in b/c I just couldn't stand it
A series on the Disney Princes would be interesting. Prince Florian, Snow White's teenage husband, is my favorite character in all of Disney canon. I am likely alone there, but still!
They should do an episode of would they wear it but with the vampire diaries wardrobe (Katherine's 14 hundreds and 16 hundreds outfits)
I want to know where I can buy that sweater. 🙂
It's cute and should be included in the notes for the recording.
Who guys should do...
Brave
Mulan
Aladin
Since those movies are strongly based on certin cultures so it important to get the fashion accurate
Yes, please!!
all love all of them
Every time I watch these breakdowns I feel incredibly thankful to be alive in the 21st century without 17 layers of undergarments needed
I love this series, it's so cool! i also love Raissas style, she always looks so great in these videos
It would be fun to do an episode of a male character. Maybe prince Phillip?
I really feel like they got the time period wrong. Im pretty sure the story takes place much earlier tham the 1500s. But what do I know
The book, they used for timing the tale, looks more like a handwritten (and painted) book of the Middle Ages. So anything before the year 1500 (or 1517 depending on the historian you're speaking to).
@@Ilogunde The Medieval Era ended in the mid 1300's with the Black Death.
I love this series! Keep it going!
LOVING THESE VIDEOS!!!