Nothing’s wrong with being “Confident”, at least according to one Miss Cressida Cowper. Her beautiful dark punishment dress in season 6 of “Bridgerton” year 3 comes with a part of lies: Cressida pretending to be Lady Whistledown.
Although John Glaser, the costume designer, claims the red dress was dictated in the text, felt the need to incorporate the dress into an entry dress with a massive arrow in the back.
“It’s thin, so it’s not big, heavy”, Glaser says. It still has secret in it. “You’re never really sure where it stops, where it starts and you’re not really sure if it’s a dark clothing.”
Glaser attributes the color ambiguity to the dress’s layering: the under and over fabrics were hot red, creating a powerful purple.
As for Cressida’s style throughout the year, Glaser says the mask group heightened her sleeves, creating an nearly make pad- esque feel to her gowns, to “give her some armor” because of her shifting storylines throughout the season.
He claims that the bow in the rear increased her safety even though they were unable to raise the shoulders for the red dress from episode 6.
“It’s like an F- U gown when she walks in,” Glaser says.
In terms of the true Lady Whistledown, Glaser claims that altering Nicola Coughlin’s picture for her primary season involved a transition from the opulent Regency to something more recent, around 1820. He explained that her clothing change allows visitors to see that she no longer abides by the gaudy colors and costumers her family had imposed on her in the past seasons.
Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, and Audrey Hepburn were among the historic Hollywood stars who served as inspiration for Penelope this year. “And that’s what we were trying to achieve. It’s like what they’re wearing is wonderful, but it’s not something that you notice, it’s simply part of them.”
He claimed the group also softened her colors to prevent them from distracting her, let her character to shine, come to life, and maintain her key identity as Whistledown, and likewise softened them.
Glaser claims that the team tried to incorporate as much from the Regency era as possible and that they looked at all different types of research from all periods, but that the show is called “Fantasy.” You must always remember that this program is fantasy. It’s not a history lesson. It’s a gift.”