Hold on to your breeches y'all! I invited Nicole over to sit down and watch Hamilton with me for the first time, and, woah, do we have some feelings about the costumes. We both have years of experience in 18th-Century clothing reconstruction and history, as well as both of us, being theatre kids (Nicole's degree was focused in technical theatre). So if you're curious to know if the costumes in Hamilton are accurate, we've got you covered (but not in King George's spit!)

🎉Keep Watching:

I Wore 18th-Century Clothing *Every Day for 5 YEARS & This Is What I Learned (Corsets Aren't Bad!) https://youtu.be/DyWnm0Blmh4

Answering Your Questions from "I Wore 18th-Century Clothing for 5 Years..." https://youtu.be/SN3agbKZVP0

Becoming an 18TH-CENTURY MEME LORD | Recreating the Joseph Ducreux Archaic Rap Meme as a *~LADY~*! https://youtu.be/a0pRE3uXWu8

Theatrical costuming is different than historical costuming, but when you're watching a movie or production that takes place in the past, it is always fun to see what they did right, wrong, and also to discuss what you would have done differently. With Nicole's experience in 18th-century men's tailoring and clothing, she helps bring an additional perspective to Hamilton - things that I wouldn't have thought of (because my focus is in 18th-century women's fashion - not men!) If you wanted to know how accurate the suits are for Hamilton (some are 100% reproductions of portraiture and some are...weird...) or more about what the Schuyler sisters are wearing - this video should answer those questions!

📚Further Reading:

The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking: https://amzn.to/2YAets3
The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty: https://amzn.to/2BKUY6W
Hamilton: The Revolution: https://amzn.to/38KNpdb
Alexander Hamilton: https://amzn.to/2Drc9LK

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Photo of Mike McCarty by Fred Blystone https://www.facebook.com/groups/1366436863373421/about

The queen's arms, a night's amusement / Maucourt invt. et fecit. England, 1764. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2002713081/.

Stays, 1740-60, Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/158256?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&when=A.D.+1600-1800&ft=corset&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=14

Peach Smooth Covered Stays, late 18th-Century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/90447?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=stays&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=4

Blue Smooth Covered Stays, late 18th Century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/84360?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=stays&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=2

Maternity Jacket, 1780-95, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, https://emuseum.history.org/objects/37641/maternity-jacket

Portrait of Marquis de Lafayette, 1834, Versailles, https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE005519

The Ham House Roman Conversation Piece (Gentlemen on the Grand Tour), attributed to John Brown, 1773, Ham House National Trust, NT 1139726 http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1139726

Elijah Boardman, by Ralph Earl, 1789, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10830?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&when=A.D.+1600-1800&where=United+States&what=Paintings&ao=on&ft=*&offset=180&rpp=20&pos=181

George Washington before the battle of Trenton, Jonathan Trumbull, 1792-94, The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12823?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&deptids=1&when=A.D.+1600-1800&what=Paintings&ft=portrait&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=17

Man’s suit, 1790s, LACMA https://collections.lacma.org/node/220370

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and His Wife (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels), 1788, The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436106?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&when=A.D.+1600-1800&where=France&what=Paintings&ft=portrait&offset=60&rpp=20&pos=62

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