"I'm assuming it's after the plague." In three hundred years, that's how people are going to refer to time periods in the 21st century and that is terrifying.
I'm an art historian, and I specialize in the Northern Renaissance - 15th century France, Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium (well, they're those countries now, back then it was more complicated). I'm especially into clothing in art from that time, and I think you did a great job! From now on, those are Long Boi shoes. It's official.
@@iamvictoriarae Oh I can tell, people don't just know this stuff out of nowhere! I hope you had fun researching. You'd make a good historian or art historian.
@@shariwelch8760 *"Sleeping Beauty" is Italian, French, German and also Indian very very veeeery old and ancient fairy tale ;) The oldest version of "Sleeping Beauty" is from India about Princess Surya Bai ;) Then there is the medieval French version of Perceforest, then the seventeenth-century Neapolitan version by Giambattista Basile (the writer-narrator was from Southern Italy more precisely from Naples, but the fairy tale was set in Northern Italy), then there is the eighteenth-century French version by Charles Perrault and dulcis in fundo there is the nineteenth-century German version by the Grimm brothers ;) I am Italian and I study Ancient and Modern European Literature at the Guglielmo Marconi University in Milan and in the first years of university I studied many things about European fairy tales ;)*
You are historian and you confused 15th century with 16th century? 🙄😒🧐😣 1400s is 15th century and it is still late Middle Ages in European culture and history, at least until 1492, the discovery of the New World by Columbus. 🧐😒🙄 That event marks the beginning of European renaissance that would continue during the 16th century (1500s). Then, we have the Italian renaissance that would start before European renaissance in other European countries, at least in art and fashion. Then, the 17th Century (1600s) would be generally associated with baroque called Restoration in England), which people commonly confuse with Rococo or Enlightment (that is 18th century: 1700s). Until then, each era is about hundred years or so, obviously there are specific dates for events that mark beginning and end of each era, but the general timeframe is the entire century. Then, from the 19th century (1800s), the eras are shorter and fashions change quickly; each decade brings new esthetics. This all tends to repeat in the 20th century with earlier fashion influences in modern times. And finally, the 21st century, or the culture of trash and "practical" ugliness... 🙄😒🧐 I very much prefer the Medieval fashions... 🙄😒🧐😁
If the movie is from the 50s and Aurora has the typical 50s style, it figures that the fairies, who are like aunties or grannies, look Victorian Edwardian. In the 50s, that would "just" have been ~50 years ago. So yeah. 1950s grannies in their 70s / 80s were young in the Edwardian era and its plausible that they took their fashion into their old age.
Lol! My little sister is the same. She has blonde brown hair and really nice eyebrows. But my hair is the same color and my eyebrows are super light... aghh!
I have light blond hair and dark brown eyebrows and eyelashes. My mom and brother do, too. We all also have green blue eyes. We've all been told it is an unusual hair and eyebrow color combo.
no cuz i also have dark blonde hair and my eyebrows are almost white sooo ig everyone's different and even though her having light eyebrows might not match ur hair it matches other ppls so technically it would be accurate either way. source: my friends and I who all have dark blonde hair but different eyebrows
Well. My dad and brother have pale blond hair, caramel eyebrows and eyelashes. My mom and sister have darker blond hair (more honey colored) and eyebrows and eyelashes in the same tone. They all have rather light grey-blue eyes (the ratio of blue and grey varies for each of them, with my little bro having the most blue ones but still obviously greyish). And then there's me. I was born with black hair, dark skin and really dark brown eyes. Everything lightened over the years, my eyes are now maroon colored, my hair is brown on first glance, but according to the light can appear bronze or a very dark gold. And according to any beautician and hair stylist, I am 'actually' blond haired (even got me tested once, according to genetical whatever, i am blonde lol). However, my eyebrows are a VERY dark brown and even seem black, unless right next to something actually black. And my eyelashes are black (unfortunately, they are short and straight). Fun fact: I was born with my back covered in hair and a monobrow, both disappeared after a few weeks. My body hair is ridiculous: it's pretty non existent, even for a blond i don't have much arm or leg hair, it grows veeery slowly and it's so incredibly thin. Except for those parts where everyone grows hair (armpits and 'down there') where it grows quick, and thick and long andn dark, like a brunette. So, yeah, so much about that.
The thing with the lips. She's not wearing makeup. Her lips are supposed to be like that because of the fairy's wish has blonde hair and dark lips. It's in the little song at the beginning.
That’s true, I forgot about that. I had a weird time trying to incorporate the fact that there is magic in that story when I was attempting historical plausibility 😁
@@MissCaraMint I'm jealous too! My lips are so pale a well-meaning friend asked me if I'd been checked for anemia recently. I'd literally just had blood tests done and my iron levels were totally fine 😭. I just have basically no pigment in my whole body (apart from a tiny smattering of ginger freckles bc redhead).
@@MissCaraMint i have accepted my imperfections but I cannot tolerate if any male has better features than me especially longer eyelashes. Like Why do you need that? Give it to me.
Disney wasn't really interested in historical accuracy so is it no wonder they mixed and matched clothing styles from over a 300 or 400 year period and the signature flowy hair of princess Aurora is a signature Disney move. Let's not forget that they often sanitized the original source material, which is often really horrific.
many of the Disney movies were based on traditional German (or European in general) fairytales and we were told them as children and they do reach from nice to really disturbing... If you’re searching for the fairytales look up Grimms Märchen (Grimm‘s fairytales)
@@paulalck2607 The Grimms fairytales weren't the "originals" actually! They took folk stories from all over Europe (although many had roots and/or adaptations in other areas as well) and added their own twists onto them. The story of Cinderella, for example, was first found in a Mesopotamian legend where a large bird (eagle or falcon or something I can't remember) swooped into the prince's (or rough equivalent of prince, again I don't really remember the details) room and left a girl's shoe, so the prince went and found the girl and married her, NOT originating in, as many people believe, in the Grimms fairytale book. They did spread many of their stories around to much wider audiences than they would have been told to before, but most if not all of their stories were based on pre-existing ones with varying levels of gruesomeness.
@@sarahbethh yess i know they collected them because previously they were hardly ever written down and only told so they did vary in many places. But i meant if anon wanted a collection of many fairytales that the Disney movies were based on
One thing Disney did was use the time period as an inspiration but the were more interested in current fashion, so they took their ideas of that time periods clothing and (for sleeping beauty) added the beauty standards of the late 50s so that it would be more appealing to audiences.
*"Sleeping Beauty" is Italian, French, German and also Indian very very veeeery old and ancient fairy tale ;) The oldest version of "Sleeping Beauty" is from India about Princess Surya Bai ;) Then there is the medieval French version of Perceforest, then the seventeenth-century Neapolitan version by Giambattista Basile (the writer-narrator was from Southern Italy more precisely from Naples, but the fairy tale was set in Northern Italy), then there is the eighteenth-century French version by Charles Perrault and dulcis in fundo there is the nineteenth-century German version by the Grimm brothers ;) I am Italian and I study Ancient and Modern European Literature at the university and in the first years of university I studied many things about European fairy tales ;)*
According to a comic book published around the time when the movie came out, he was going hunting with Samson, even though he only had a dagger on him. Which is even more bizarre! what was he gonna do with the dagger? Stab? the poor animals to death? With one measly dagger? Alone? In the woods? Why? I need a proper explanation from Disney that doesn't involve him being a terrifying forest critter ripper
One thing to mention about the confusion over whether it's France or England. Late 14th century was the height of the Hundred Years War so England was in control of most of France and in fact, Aquitaine had been under English rule for so long it's people considered themselves English rather than French.
Just a little note on the Fleur de Lys: by the 14th century, about 300 years had passed since the Norman invasion of England, and almost all of the country's nobility was French. Furthermore, the movie takes place at the same time as the 100 year's war, and Edward II used the Fleur de Lys in England's coat of arms to show that he had claim in French land. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Nicole Rudolph did a historically accurate cosplay of Maleficent recently. She used a houppelande style dress and double hennin for the head piece. There are images I found on google that resemble Maleficent's ensemble. So, I guess Disney just took inspiration from different time periods as they saw fit.
Considering just how out of place that dress they gave Aurora really is, I think it's pretty clear that they have the same kind of out of time knowledge that the Genie for Aladdin has. Edit: I think that also has something to do with her other clothing as well. Considering they are completely isolated from the rest of society out there in the woods, and the fairies seem to be pretty confused about contemporary fashion. And bevareges, and cake. Oooh maybe that's why Prince Philip is so captivated. He has literally never seen anything like her. Love the dress you put her in though.
OK 1) I wish more people could see the 3 fairies as main characters 2) Given how many dress historian youtubers are doing this sort of thing, is anyone else hoping for a little mermaid costume type thing?
I love the costumes in this movie. I really love Aurora's peasant and princess dresses......BUT WHEN I SAW YOUR INTERPRETATION OF HER DRESSES IN AN HISTORICALLY ACCURATE STYLE I FELL DEEPLY IN LOVE. All of the redesigns are absolutely beautiful. It honestly made me love the story more. Bravo. Now lemme go like and subscribe. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😊
The pink clothes from medieval art look like they were dyed with puce imo, since they edge towards more purpley/mushroomy colours. Also depending on the beets you can get really pink hued dyes that range from rose coloured all the way to like deep magenta depending on how long you leave it. Also I believe in Medieval Scottland there were pinks and magentas achieved with different lichens and native dandelion roots which got pretty impressively vivid.
I remember watching it as a kid as i got older say 9/10 just imagined the green skin was due to her delving into more and more forbidden/evil magic aka a more extreme version of a witches mark.
"they're human and they don't wanna live in a dungeon" lol 😂 Idk why bare stone is always made the interior of castles. Great vid! This was always my favorite princess movie as a kid because of the art style
Briar Rose does have a personality and I don't know why you think she doesn't. She's kind, good-hearted, curious, intelligent and idealistic but we don't see her for very long so no wonder people miss it. The subtleties in the animation show her personality a lot. Prince Philip is one of my favourite Disney Prince's and I think he was the template for Eugene in Tangled because they share similarities even down to the horse. Also, the fairies are the main characters and I thought that was obvious. Flora is a savage.
@@iamvictoriaraenot like aurora, snow white as a real personnality, she is active in her movie and show kindness, open mind, humor and a great empathy ans generosity
You may have already seen it but Nicole Rudolph just put out two videos where she did a historically accurate Malificent outfit. Really liked your video.
I just watched them! They’re great! I know I’m my video I expressed confusion on whether her outfit is accurate or not, but Nicole’s video was SO informative. I loved it
Your illustrations showing your changes with the designs of the outfits looks really pretty and nice, and I hope you get attention more after all I just saw you in my recommendations just recently!
This was very interesting, and your knowledge of this era is truly impressive! But of course the animators were trying to keep the clothing simpler since they had to draw these characters by hand in those days -- thousands of times! They were incredible, and the early Disney classics are so visually stunning.
And a bit of a modern style (current fashion, trends, etc) to get a bigger audience than just seeing an historically accurate moving picture book that no one would honestly probably give a crap about unless you’re a huge nerd about this stuff like I am 😅 Still interested in historical fashion, I’m just saying haha
Well the thing about this specific Disney movie is that, in my opinion at least, the musical score is the main character. It's essentially a very long, very beautiful music video. That's probably why I love it so much. Actually maybe the reason for her peasant costume is also partially due to ballet? The silhouette is similar to some of the ballet peasant costumes I've seen.
Aurora’s a Latin name- but there’s a French version of the name that is a single letter removed from that, & there’s also Maleficent, which also comes from French- so France would be a good setting for the styling...
Fun Fact: The running gag of which Flora and Merryweather change the color of Aurora's dress from pink to blue was based on a real-life disagreement of what color her dress should be.
@@DoraG99 thank you! I was unsure about Maleficent’s costume because I know it can be interpreted as a houpellaunde, but I was going for an earlier moment in time. I’m glad you like it!
It’s supposed to be France. But like you said, it’s a fantastical cartoon story and very easily could be influenced from several things. But canonically with Disney, it is meant to be France
I’m pretty sure the movie is set in France lol. I really love this break down! The middles ages really fascinates me and I’m glad to see how the movie is accurate and inaccurate.
Maleficent is wearing a houppelande with dagged sleeves and a horned henin c. 1430s. Obvious inspiration, despite the fantasy elements turning it into actual horns. Also, unmarried young girls didn't necessarily wear covered hair. Married women did with the exception of coronation portraiture. It often denoted the difference between a young maiden and an adult woman. The other exception was Italy where there was lots of uncovered hair. Northern Europe was very different in fashion from Southern Europe. The vast majority of the fashion in Sleeping Beauty is 15th century (all those henins) in spite of Phillip's line (he's dressed very Robin Hood), though there are the odd exceptions like Stefan and Leah being earlier (they're the most 14th century of them all) and Hubert being full-blown Henry VIII Tudor. Sleeping Beauty is definitely France, not England. Though even if it was, Edward III's England absolutely would've had fleurs-de-lys. Look at the Plantagenet heraldry with quartered fleurs-de-lys and Richard the Lionheart's lions. They fought a whole war against France with the intent to claim the French throne after John Lackland lost his inherited lands in Normandy (with the exceptions of Calais and Poitou). At the time, the land in Aquitaine/Gascony, which was wine country, brought it far more profit than rainy, cold England, which couldn't grow much and was considered a cultural backwater. The roots of the Hundred Years' War were this. The English crown was crosses and fleurs-de-lys. Note that the English court and ruler didn't even speak English primarily until Henry V. Anglo-Norman was the language of the nobility from William the Conqueror on through c. 1400. Richard I the Lionheart preferred his mother's native tongue of Occitan and didn't really speak English (or even like England at all--he left mother Eleanor of Aquitaine in charge while he went off crusading for a decade). Then there was Henry VII Tudor, who grew up speaking Welsh (thanks to being raised by Uncle Jasper), French and Latin, but he was a later exception before getting into the German Welfen/Guelphs (especially middle-aged George I, which is why he created the role of Prime Minister to rule the foreign country for him). In terms of Plantagenet England, the anglophone anglophiles were that stretch from Henry V to Richard III. Note that Mad Henry VI was actually crowned King of France at Notre-Dame de Paris when he was an infant, though was very much a pretender to the throne. Enter Charles VII and Joan of Arc.
Wow! Great to know. There has been a lot of speculation in the comments whether it’s England or France. I guess Disney says it’s France but I’ve also heard England. As for Maleficent, I probably didn’t recognize it as a houppelaunde because it seemed more like a robe with that long center opening and that threw me off. Plus since I was using Philip’s statement for a time period to stick to, I wasn’t researching 15th century dress. But it would have been good if I had addressed her being accurate in that period of time!
Have you seen Nicole Rudolf's videos of her historically accurate Maleficent videos that have been posted over the last few weeks? I think Nicole featured on 15th century though, but the final costume is awesome! Thanks for taking the time to do all this research and make this video.
It's definitely france cause as you mentioned, the Fleur-de-Lys is present in many scenes, the France national anthem is sung as “Hail to the Princess Aurora”, the art direction for the movie that was inspired by the French gothic manuscript by the Limbourg Brothers and other French tapestries, lastly the movie is based on the Charles Perrault version of Sleeping Beauty.
I always felt like Aurora's dress should have been green. Like while Fauna and Merryweather were fighting Flora could (and should) have taken advantage and shut them up with how great she looks in green.
Actually, gambeson was much more popular than any other armor, just layers of clothing, to block and stop a blade. This would've been far more affordable, for everyone! You can check out Shadiversity's content for more info~
I love shadiversity! I guess I forgot to ad why I decided to give Philip Brigadine. I figured because he was a prince he would be more likely to afford it🙂
@@iamvictoriarae I think you mentioned that he was pretending to be a commoner, at one point? But, I forget which era you were going for. Things seemed 13th century, then suddenly we're all up in the 15th, and I'm wondering where the 200 years went? I forget if you mentioned it.
@@karenl6908 yes I did mention that I theorized he was pretending to be a commoner to remain under the radar while out in the woods. I believe I mentioned in the video that Philip stated they were in the 14th century. As to why it seemed like I was going into the 15th century, I assumed that it was in the later half of the 14th century because of the Crackow shoes . Some of late 14th century fashions bled into the next century. I tried conveying this in the vid but let me know if you have any other questions. The era is so vague in Disney movies.
But why do I like your outfits for the movie WAAAYYY better? Like the silhouette for Aurora-ICONIC. Kinda wanna see the movie reanimated like this. But I digress 😂😂 Love this video! ☺️☺️
One point about the sword. There was something called the "hand-and-a-half sword" which was about halfway between the one-handed and two-handed versions. The idea was to be able to use it either way. Maybe the prince was carrying that.
People assume Aurora doesn't have a personality when honestly... She's just an introvert! She clearly has a rich inner world and wistful imagination, AS EVIDENCED BY HER SONG AND DANCE, but she is not an extrovert and isn't comfortable expressing her every thought aloud. She still cares about the people she knows well and has deep emotional ties to the playmates she grew up with (forest animals). I was really similar to her as a kid (though i played with Barbies instead of animals), so she was the princess i liked most. Even after i became more like Belle, Aurora tigs at my heart strings and inner child
i really, *really* love how you released this wonderful video as the more popular costubers we’re releasing their disney-inspired creations! i think that’s how i stumbled upon your channel.. since i had just watched nicole rudolph’s houppelande/hannen videos and karolina zebrowska’s renaissance snow white video. i’m so glad i found you! thank you for sharing your expertise and art with us
I know right! I had no idea the costubers were planning all the Disney themed stuff, since I’m such a small channel. I was working on researching for this video for the past 5-6 months, uploaded it a little over a month ago and it had no views... and since all the Disney stuff the algorithm has been directing people to my channel and I am so grateful!
I love when people do a green gown for Aurora! I'm firmly in camp Merriweather (my family constantly says "make it blue" whenever we're picking something's color), but Fauna deserves more attention (and green is a very close second to blue).
You´re right about the shield not being appropriate with the long sword. But a longsword is not that heavy! It can be carried and wielded with one hand. Just doesn´t make sense because you completely loose the advantage of a long sword, i.e. the sword covering you when not carrying a shield.... HEMA nerd out.
It's interesting how they largely infused the then currently beauty and fashion ideals (which was the 1950's) into a medieval fairy tale. Looking at it from a 2021 perspective it's quite neat. But yeah, I do appreciate historical accuracy!
Makeup existed in Cleopatras day, and even before that, so I do believe they had makeup in some forms, it was just a big fat no no to wear it. Also, amazing video! You deserve way more followers!
Rewatching my vid I wish I hadn’t said makeup didn’t exist because I knew it existed in some form! I don’t know why i said that. Definitely finding mistakes even tho I spent so much time on research lol.
Rando on yt: makeup existed before Cleopatra's day. Me (armchair historian who watches way too many documentaries): you know the ancient Greeks right? Well they existed before Cleopatra's was born. And then there was an ancient Greece before ancient Greece called Mycenaean Greece, and then another culture even before them called Minoan Greece and now archeologists have found a settlement suggesting that even in prehistory women would tattoo (or makeup idk for sure) their faces. (Cycladic Greek Culture)
I really liked this. It was low-volumed, but I turned on CC and it helped. You might need a stronger mike pickup. The historical accuracy--THANK YOU! I am in the SCA and this has pricked me quite often. I overlook it for the sheer beauty of the movie and the way they tried to make it a living tapestry.
Good call with the french inspiration! „Sleeping Beauty“ (Or at least the most famous, Perrault version) is a french fairytale. Nicole Rudolph made a series recreating Maleficent‘s outfit, and she went with a 15th century look. Also, yeah, the fairies have little witch hats to signify they‘re magic, cause french fairies walked a very fine line between the little people of Great Britain‘s folklore and straight up human sorceresses
Although makup was seen as somewhat of a taboo during the middle ages, there are books about cosmetics written during this time. Aging in women was seen as a result of Eve's transgressions against god and L'ornement des Dames from the 13th century is a book about how to restore youthful beauty with cosmetics.
Well, cosmetics have been known to be used by celtic women (among others) since ancient times, they are pretty easy to make afterall. And just because the church wasn't happy about it, doesn't mean it wasn't done by the people, especially nobility when all they had to do was buy an indulgence letter to be cleansed of any 'sins'.
You have such an engaging personality. I love how animated you are! Your script is casual but doesn’t drift. I learned a lot from watching your work. Thank you!
i really love how you went about this. it's very cool to see someone make one dress or costume based on a particular character, but, the way you did this, we get to see how all the characters might look, and learn about more kinds of medieval (in this case) fashion, and i found that soooooo interesting and satisfying! that may be because i'm more interested in history than sewing, but, either way, i enjoyed this a lot. (i hope this makes sense.)
Tbh, the head dresses of the fairies and Maleficent are pretty accurate, but debatable in the 14th century. They were called Hennins (one pointy conical hat, often with some thin and/or transparent piece of fabric attached to it or to the pointy point) and Escoffions (wrongly called 'double horn hennin' or 'heart shaped hennin'. They could very well look exactly what Maleficent is wearing, btw and there are more than enough paintings and portraits of women wearing all kinds of escoffions, including ones that look like all kinds of horns, with or without a veil ). The only debatable thing about those head pieces (as well as Maleficents costume) could be the time period. Escoffions are known to be widely popular in the 15th century, and were 'probably' already a thing at the end of the 14th century. As for the authenticity of Maleficents outfit (pretty historically on point, except for a different medieval date), Nicole Rudolphs explains it very well in her cosplay video for a historically accurate Maleficent. Oh, and btw: They had boots. They didn't look like that, of course, but boots existed.
if youtube puts the "making a historically accurate maleficent" by nicole rudolph into your list of upcomming videos, as the algorythm does for me... you might wanna click on it. she interprets that balck coat into a faboulus hupelande and gets very much into detail about the specific time she chose for the outfit. double hennin time...
Holy crap! I just realized something. When I was about 5 or 6, back in 1980 something, my mom made me a Sleeping Beauty costume. But she made it in Maleficent’s colors. My mother made me a hot pink and purple Sleeping Beauty costume because those were my favorite colors. I didn’t even realize that I made my costume basically if Maleficent was Sleeping Beauty. 😲
I loved what you had to share. I know that Nicole just did a video on Maleficint that in a lot of ways matched your redesign but you both came to that conclusion through different arguments. Thank you for being a new voice. Love the kirtles.
A really good video, and lovely edits! If you’re interested in a bit of critique on the video itself, keep reading, but if not, that’s completely okay. I’d recommend writing a script for yourself, first off! I could be mistaken in thinking you don’t have one, but I think it could really help tighten up the delivery of your videos and make them even more engaging for potential viewers. I’d also recommend making sure the audio is level across all clips before posting. You can do this in free programs like audacity! I mention this because your opening clip is significantly louder than the rest of the video. You can also use audacity to remove noise to some degree! I hope you keep on making videos, this was a wonderful watch 🤍🤎🤍
you did such an amazing job, miss! in fact I liked your versions of costumes more than original ones! also these braids on you look sooo good. thanks for this masterpiece!
I always liked the Blue version best. I've never been fond of pink. Well it was my favorite color when I was little I think every girl goes through a pink phase unfortunately... I loved your final blue dress. But the green was beautiful too
I love your video! "Sleeping Beauty" (along with "Beauty and the Beast") was my favourite Disney movie growing up. And I agree, it is a lot shorter than one remembers. But that is the case with most of the old movies. They just couldn't afford to make them longer as it was so expensive. Personally I always thought the movie looked very medieval-ish in general (and heck, I don't care how inaccurate it is, I just LOVE to look at it!), but I adored your designs for the 14th century. Fun fact: I was surprised at first, because in the German version Philipp says it takes place in the 13TH century, not the 14th. No idea why they changed that, the syllables needed are the exact same...
I love this video, and I just subscribed!! I do have a little note of cc, tho, it was really hard to hear you at the times your werent doing voiceover.
"I'm assuming it's after the plague."
In three hundred years, that's how people are going to refer to time periods in the 21st century and that is terrifying.
Absolutley terrifying
😂 at least they'll be saying pandemic, which sounds more... sanitized.
@@availanila very sanitized indeed😊
plague killed half of the European population. covid is killing 1.000th of it.
@@Malaima there are still a lot of people dying...
I'm an art historian, and I specialize in the Northern Renaissance - 15th century France, Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium (well, they're those countries now, back then it was more complicated). I'm especially into clothing in art from that time, and I think you did a great job! From now on, those are Long Boi shoes. It's official.
Wow! Thank you very much that means a lot! I spent around four months planning out this video 😁
@@iamvictoriarae Oh I can tell, people don't just know this stuff out of nowhere! I hope you had fun researching. You'd make a good historian or art historian.
@@shariwelch8760 *"Sleeping Beauty" is Italian, French, German and also Indian very very veeeery old and ancient fairy tale ;) The oldest version of "Sleeping Beauty" is from India about Princess Surya Bai ;) Then there is the medieval French version of Perceforest, then the seventeenth-century Neapolitan version by Giambattista Basile (the writer-narrator was from Southern Italy more precisely from Naples, but the fairy tale was set in Northern Italy), then there is the eighteenth-century French version by Charles Perrault and dulcis in fundo there is the nineteenth-century German version by the Grimm brothers ;) I am Italian and I study Ancient and Modern European Literature at the Guglielmo Marconi University in Milan and in the first years of university I studied many things about European fairy tales ;)*
You are historian and you confused 15th century with 16th century? 🙄😒🧐😣 1400s is 15th century and it is still late Middle Ages in European culture and history, at least until 1492, the discovery of the New World by Columbus. 🧐😒🙄 That event marks the beginning of European renaissance that would continue during the 16th century (1500s). Then, we have the Italian renaissance that would start before European renaissance in other European countries, at least in art and fashion. Then, the 17th Century (1600s) would be generally associated with baroque called Restoration in England), which people commonly confuse with Rococo or Enlightment (that is 18th century: 1700s). Until then, each era is about hundred years or so, obviously there are specific dates for events that mark beginning and end of each era, but the general timeframe is the entire century. Then, from the 19th century (1800s), the eras are shorter and fashions change quickly; each decade brings new esthetics. This all tends to repeat in the 20th century with earlier fashion influences in modern times. And finally, the 21st century, or the culture of trash and "practical" ugliness... 🙄😒🧐 I very much prefer the Medieval fashions... 🙄😒🧐😁
@@iamvictoriaraeI think you should have just added the cape to Stefan since he’s a king like i sometimes do
If the movie is from the 50s and Aurora has the typical 50s style, it figures that the fairies, who are like aunties or grannies, look Victorian Edwardian. In the 50s, that would "just" have been ~50 years ago. So yeah. 1950s grannies in their 70s / 80s were young in the Edwardian era and its plausible that they took their fashion into their old age.
Yes! Came here to see if someone had commented about the fairies hairstyles being 1900s inspired.
I love the fairies.
That line "women wanted to look like eggs," thank you. Magnificent
Now I kinda wanna look like an egg
@@iamvictoriarae honestly, same
My favorite line: "Instead of seeing Briar Rose, he sees Christian Grey's dungeon."
Since Aurora is a darker golden blonde rather than a near white nordic blonde her eyebrows would naturally be darker source: my eyebrows
Lol! My little sister is the same. She has blonde brown hair and really nice eyebrows. But my hair is the same color and my eyebrows are super light... aghh!
I have light blond hair and dark brown eyebrows and eyelashes. My mom and brother do, too. We all also have green blue eyes. We've all been told it is an unusual hair and eyebrow color combo.
no cuz i also have dark blonde hair and my eyebrows are almost white sooo ig everyone's different and even though her having light eyebrows might not match ur hair it matches other ppls so technically it would be accurate either way. source: my friends and I who all have dark blonde hair but different eyebrows
Well. My dad and brother have pale blond hair, caramel eyebrows and eyelashes. My mom and sister have darker blond hair (more honey colored) and eyebrows and eyelashes in the same tone. They all have rather light grey-blue eyes (the ratio of blue and grey varies for each of them, with my little bro having the most blue ones but still obviously greyish).
And then there's me. I was born with black hair, dark skin and really dark brown eyes. Everything lightened over the years, my eyes are now maroon colored, my hair is brown on first glance, but according to the light can appear bronze or a very dark gold. And according to any beautician and hair stylist, I am 'actually' blond haired (even got me tested once, according to genetical whatever, i am blonde lol).
However, my eyebrows are a VERY dark brown and even seem black, unless right next to something actually black. And my eyelashes are black (unfortunately, they are short and straight).
Fun fact: I was born with my back covered in hair and a monobrow, both disappeared after a few weeks. My body hair is ridiculous: it's pretty non existent, even for a blond i don't have much arm or leg hair, it grows veeery slowly and it's so incredibly thin. Except for those parts where everyone grows hair (armpits and 'down there') where it grows quick, and thick and long andn dark, like a brunette. So, yeah, so much about that.
Didn't she change the colour to match the trends of that era🤔
The thing with the lips. She's not wearing makeup. Her lips are supposed to be like that because of the fairy's wish has blonde hair and dark lips. It's in the little song at the beginning.
Yeah. some people are just blessed with more colour in their lips naturally in real like too. I don’t have it, but my brother does. I'm so jealous.
That’s true, I forgot about that. I had a weird time trying to incorporate the fact that there is magic in that story when I was attempting historical plausibility 😁
@@MissCaraMint I'm jealous too! My lips are so pale a well-meaning friend asked me if I'd been checked for anemia recently. I'd literally just had blood tests done and my iron levels were totally fine 😭. I just have basically no pigment in my whole body (apart from a tiny smattering of ginger freckles bc redhead).
@@MissCaraMint i have accepted my imperfections but I cannot tolerate if any male has better features than me especially longer eyelashes. Like Why do you need that? Give it to me.
I have it too I have a red color to my lips naturally my sister’s lips are thin and pale
Disney wasn't really interested in historical accuracy so is it no wonder they mixed and matched clothing styles from over a 300 or 400 year period and the signature flowy hair of princess Aurora is a signature Disney move. Let's not forget that they often sanitized the original source material, which is often really horrific.
many of the Disney movies were based on traditional German (or European in general) fairytales and we were told them as children and they do reach from nice to really disturbing... If you’re searching for the fairytales look up Grimms Märchen (Grimm‘s fairytales)
@@paulalck2607 The Grimms fairytales weren't the "originals" actually! They took folk stories from all over Europe (although many had roots and/or adaptations in other areas as well) and added their own twists onto them. The story of Cinderella, for example, was first found in a Mesopotamian legend where a large bird (eagle or falcon or something I can't remember) swooped into the prince's (or rough equivalent of prince, again I don't really remember the details) room and left a girl's shoe, so the prince went and found the girl and married her, NOT originating in, as many people believe, in the Grimms fairytale book. They did spread many of their stories around to much wider audiences than they would have been told to before, but most if not all of their stories were based on pre-existing ones with varying levels of gruesomeness.
@@sarahbethh yess i know they collected them because previously they were hardly ever written down and only told so they did vary in many places. But i meant if anon wanted a collection of many fairytales that the Disney movies were based on
One thing Disney did was use the time period as an inspiration but the were more interested in current fashion, so they took their ideas of that time periods clothing and (for sleeping beauty) added the beauty standards of the late 50s so that it would be more appealing to audiences.
Yeah, they kind of do that. But who cares?! By the way, what are your opinions about these live-action Disney remakes?
For most of the medieval era whether you were in northern France or English France was a very difficult question to answer.
*"Sleeping Beauty" is Italian, French, German and also Indian very very veeeery old and ancient fairy tale ;) The oldest version of "Sleeping Beauty" is from India about Princess Surya Bai ;) Then there is the medieval French version of Perceforest, then the seventeenth-century Neapolitan version by Giambattista Basile (the writer-narrator was from Southern Italy more precisely from Naples, but the fairy tale was set in Northern Italy), then there is the eighteenth-century French version by Charles Perrault and dulcis in fundo there is the nineteenth-century German version by the Grimm brothers ;) I am Italian and I study Ancient and Modern European Literature at the university and in the first years of university I studied many things about European fairy tales ;)*
@@QueenPersephoneKore95 love this!!!
Forest Philip is indeed an interesting man. I fear him.
RiGhT?!?! He’s essentially undercover as a peasant. He is mysterious.
According to a comic book published around the time when the movie came out, he was going hunting with Samson, even though he only had a dagger on him.
Which is even more bizarre! what was he gonna do with the dagger? Stab? the poor animals to death? With one measly dagger? Alone? In the woods? Why?
I need a proper explanation from Disney that doesn't involve him being a terrifying forest critter ripper
I fear him but I also need him
One thing to mention about the confusion over whether it's France or England. Late 14th century was the height of the Hundred Years War so England was in control of most of France and in fact, Aquitaine had been under English rule for so long it's people considered themselves English rather than French.
Just a little note on the Fleur de Lys: by the 14th century, about 300 years had passed since the Norman invasion of England, and almost all of the country's nobility was French. Furthermore, the movie takes place at the same time as the 100 year's war, and Edward II used the Fleur de Lys in England's coat of arms to show that he had claim in French land. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Nicole Rudolph did a historically accurate cosplay of Maleficent recently. She used a houppelande style dress and double hennin for the head piece. There are images I found on google that resemble Maleficent's ensemble. So, I guess Disney just took inspiration from different time periods as they saw fit.
"Those Fairy Godmothers carried the whole movie on their backs"
SUBSCRIBED! THAT'S IT! SUBSCRIBED!
The title shouldn’t have been ‘Sleeping Beauty.’ It should have been ‘Badass Fairy Godmothers’.
Considering just how out of place that dress they gave Aurora really is, I think it's pretty clear that they have the same kind of out of time knowledge that the Genie for Aladdin has.
Edit: I think that also has something to do with her other clothing as well. Considering they are completely isolated from the rest of society out there in the woods, and the fairies seem to be pretty confused about contemporary fashion. And bevareges, and cake. Oooh maybe that's why Prince Philip is so captivated. He has literally never seen anything like her.
Love the dress you put her in though.
I LOVE that interpretation! I can totally see the faeries dressing her in something totally weird for the era!
OK 1) I wish more people could see the 3 fairies as main characters 2) Given how many dress historian youtubers are doing this sort of thing, is anyone else hoping for a little mermaid costume type thing?
I know right?! The whole costube community is doing Disney costumes but I have yet to see my girl Ariel!
@@iamvictoriaraeTbf, I'm not sure how popular 1830's giant sleeves are..
@@jeanfalconer6377 Ives also heard that the movie has 1890s elements, but either way you’re right! Those sleeves would be GiGAnTiC!
Morgan Dinner posted her Ariel today.
@@karenharper2266 yeeeessss! Morgan Donner’s Ariel is amazing!!!
It would be great if both Aurora and Philip were in blue and red Particoloured with goldwork. Like the Black Princes Surcoat.
Ooooh! I should’ve done that!
This was wonderful. Your intro with the pink and blue was hilarious.
Thank you!
I love the costumes in this movie. I really love Aurora's peasant and princess dresses......BUT WHEN I SAW YOUR INTERPRETATION OF HER DRESSES IN AN HISTORICALLY ACCURATE STYLE I FELL DEEPLY IN LOVE. All of the redesigns are absolutely beautiful. It honestly made me love the story more. Bravo. Now lemme go like and subscribe. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😊
Thank you! I love her original outfits too and would personally wear them in a second if I had the chance.
The pink clothes from medieval art look like they were dyed with puce imo, since they edge towards more purpley/mushroomy colours. Also depending on the beets you can get really pink hued dyes that range from rose coloured all the way to like deep magenta depending on how long you leave it. Also I believe in Medieval Scottland there were pinks and magentas achieved with different lichens and native dandelion roots which got pretty impressively vivid.
This is the best "make it historically accurate" video. So many details!! And you went though each character. 👏👏👏 Excellent!
Thank u! I felt going through each character helps give the full picture 🙂
I remember watching it as a kid as i got older say 9/10 just imagined the green skin was due to her delving into more and more forbidden/evil magic aka a more extreme version of a witches mark.
I always thought it was taken from the Wizard of Oz.
Probably both
"they're human and they don't wanna live in a dungeon" lol 😂
Idk why bare stone is always made the interior of castles.
Great vid! This was always my favorite princess movie as a kid because of the art style
And that's another reason why the Slytherin room makes no sense
Briar Rose does have a personality and I don't know why you think she doesn't. She's kind, good-hearted, curious, intelligent and idealistic but we don't see her for very long so no wonder people miss it. The subtleties in the animation show her personality a lot. Prince Philip is one of my favourite Disney Prince's and I think he was the template for Eugene in Tangled because they share similarities even down to the horse. Also, the fairies are the main characters and I thought that was obvious. Flora is a savage.
I see what you’re saying, a similar argument can be made for Snow White. 😁
I think aurora is kind , curious , very romantic and a bit rebel , but i don't see where she's generous , idealistic and the others...
@@iamvictoriaraenot like aurora, snow white as a real personnality, she is active in her movie and show kindness, open mind, humor and a great empathy ans generosity
You may have already seen it but Nicole Rudolph just put out two videos where she did a historically accurate Malificent outfit. Really liked your video.
I just watched them! They’re great! I know I’m my video I expressed confusion on whether her outfit is accurate or not, but Nicole’s video was SO informative. I loved it
You're adorkable. I love that theory of Maleficent being a plague survivor.
Your illustrations showing your changes with the designs of the outfits looks really pretty and nice, and I hope you get attention more after all I just saw you in my recommendations just recently!
Thank you so much! I hope so too!
This was very interesting, and your knowledge of this era is truly impressive! But of course the animators were trying to keep the clothing simpler since they had to draw these characters by hand in those days -- thousands of times! They were incredible, and the early Disney classics are so visually stunning.
And a bit of a modern style (current fashion, trends, etc) to get a bigger audience than just seeing an historically accurate moving picture book that no one would honestly probably give a crap about unless you’re a huge nerd about this stuff like I am 😅 Still interested in historical fashion, I’m just saying haha
Well the thing about this specific Disney movie is that, in my opinion at least, the musical score is the main character. It's essentially a very long, very beautiful music video. That's probably why I love it so much.
Actually maybe the reason for her peasant costume is also partially due to ballet? The silhouette is similar to some of the ballet peasant costumes I've seen.
Aurora’s a Latin name- but there’s a French version of the name that is a single letter removed from that, & there’s also Maleficent, which also comes from French- so France would be a good setting for the styling...
Italian would… Giambattista Basile (an Italian person) was the one to create The Sleeping Beauty!
Fun Fact: The running gag of which Flora and Merryweather change the color of Aurora's dress from pink to blue was based on a real-life disagreement of what color her dress should be.
I'm screaming at how FABULOUS Maleficent looks! You've done such an incredible job!!!
Also even with his heinous historically accurate haircut Phillip is still cute lmao
@@DoraG99 thank you! I was unsure about Maleficent’s costume because I know it can be interpreted as a houpellaunde, but I was going for an earlier moment in time. I’m glad you like it!
Most of humanity, arguing over Aroura's dress :PINK! bLuE! no... pInK! No, *B L U E !*
Movie Poster: idk i think its purple
That beginning section with the little dancey dances was *so* iconic lol
I am loving all the disney princess videos costuming youtubers are making!
It’s supposed to be France. But like you said, it’s a fantastical cartoon story and very easily could be influenced from several things. But canonically with Disney, it is meant to be France
However the live action remake was Scotland
*Italy!!! Giambattista Basile was the one to create The Sleeping Beauty!
I’m pretty sure the movie is set in France lol. I really love this break down! The middles ages really fascinates me and I’m glad to see how the movie is accurate and inaccurate.
I feel like the consensus has been France 🇫🇷
This is so well researched and presented, I love it!
Thank you! I was planning this for over four months, I even made my outfit in preparation for it🤗
@@iamvictoriarae that outfit is really striking.
Maleficent is wearing a houppelande with dagged sleeves and a horned henin c. 1430s. Obvious inspiration, despite the fantasy elements turning it into actual horns.
Also, unmarried young girls didn't necessarily wear covered hair. Married women did with the exception of coronation portraiture. It often denoted the difference between a young maiden and an adult woman. The other exception was Italy where there was lots of uncovered hair. Northern Europe was very different in fashion from Southern Europe.
The vast majority of the fashion in Sleeping Beauty is 15th century (all those henins) in spite of Phillip's line (he's dressed very Robin Hood), though there are the odd exceptions like Stefan and Leah being earlier (they're the most 14th century of them all) and Hubert being full-blown Henry VIII Tudor.
Sleeping Beauty is definitely France, not England. Though even if it was, Edward III's England absolutely would've had fleurs-de-lys. Look at the Plantagenet heraldry with quartered fleurs-de-lys and Richard the Lionheart's lions. They fought a whole war against France with the intent to claim the French throne after John Lackland lost his inherited lands in Normandy (with the exceptions of Calais and Poitou). At the time, the land in Aquitaine/Gascony, which was wine country, brought it far more profit than rainy, cold England, which couldn't grow much and was considered a cultural backwater. The roots of the Hundred Years' War were this. The English crown was crosses and fleurs-de-lys.
Note that the English court and ruler didn't even speak English primarily until Henry V. Anglo-Norman was the language of the nobility from William the Conqueror on through c. 1400. Richard I the Lionheart preferred his mother's native tongue of Occitan and didn't really speak English (or even like England at all--he left mother Eleanor of Aquitaine in charge while he went off crusading for a decade). Then there was Henry VII Tudor, who grew up speaking Welsh (thanks to being raised by Uncle Jasper), French and Latin, but he was a later exception before getting into the German Welfen/Guelphs (especially middle-aged George I, which is why he created the role of Prime Minister to rule the foreign country for him). In terms of Plantagenet England, the anglophone anglophiles were that stretch from Henry V to Richard III. Note that Mad Henry VI was actually crowned King of France at Notre-Dame de Paris when he was an infant, though was very much a pretender to the throne. Enter Charles VII and Joan of Arc.
Wow! Great to know. There has been a lot of speculation in the comments whether it’s England or France. I guess Disney says it’s France but I’ve also heard England. As for Maleficent, I probably didn’t recognize it as a houppelaunde because it seemed more like a robe with that long center opening and that threw me off. Plus since I was using Philip’s statement for a time period to stick to, I wasn’t researching 15th century dress. But it would have been good if I had addressed her being accurate in that period of time!
The best part, is that book is actually real! It's recently been restored, but I'm delighted it was actually real. (I love that you have a replica ♥)
ps I love the work you put in! The changes are fantastic!
The EFFORT it must have taken to draw all those edits...thank you!
Oh it was a TON of effort! I’d been planning this video for months
@@iamvictoriarae It shows! I LOVED it, you do amazing work!
Have you seen Nicole Rudolf's videos of her historically accurate Maleficent videos that have been posted over the last few weeks? I think Nicole featured on 15th century though, but the final costume is awesome!
Thanks for taking the time to do all this research and make this video.
I have! Her costume is gorgeous!
It's definitely france cause as you mentioned, the Fleur-de-Lys is present in many scenes, the France national anthem is sung as “Hail to the Princess Aurora”, the art direction for the movie that was inspired by the French gothic manuscript by the Limbourg Brothers and other French tapestries, lastly the movie is based on the Charles Perrault version of Sleeping Beauty.
Maleficent: "Curse the baby..."
Aurora: "Don't curse the baby."
Maleficent: "Curse the baby!"
I always felt like Aurora's dress should have been green. Like while Fauna and Merryweather were fighting Flora could (and should) have taken advantage and shut them up with how great she looks in green.
Ok you did such a beautiful job and I'm so glad the algorithm sent me this!!! Your channel is gonna blow up one of these days, it can't not
Ok, wow. I expected it to be just about the Aurora dress, and oh boy, you delivered SO MUCH MORE in such QUALITY.
AAAAH.
Prince Philip was amazing too, lbr! I love that whole movie for so many reasons and this was such a wonderful video to watch!
This is probably already been said but Disney has officially made Aurora French
The algorithm sent me here after a video from Zebrowska. I love your personality and attention to detail! Subscribeddd
Thank you algorithm and thank you Earthchild Belle 😁
Actually, gambeson was much more popular than any other armor, just layers of clothing, to block and stop a blade. This would've been far more affordable, for everyone! You can check out Shadiversity's content for more info~
I love shadiversity! I guess I forgot to ad why I decided to give Philip Brigadine. I figured because he was a prince he would be more likely to afford it🙂
@@iamvictoriarae I think you mentioned that he was pretending to be a commoner, at one point? But, I forget which era you were going for. Things seemed 13th century, then suddenly we're all up in the 15th, and I'm wondering where the 200 years went? I forget if you mentioned it.
@@karenl6908 yes I did mention that I theorized he was pretending to be a commoner to remain under the radar while out in the woods. I believe I mentioned in the video that Philip stated they were in the 14th century. As to why it seemed like I was going into the 15th century, I assumed that it was in the later half of the 14th century because of the Crackow shoes . Some of late 14th century fashions bled into the next century. I tried conveying this in the vid but let me know if you have any other questions. The era is so vague in Disney movies.
But why do I like your outfits for the movie WAAAYYY better? Like the silhouette for Aurora-ICONIC. Kinda wanna see the movie reanimated like this. But I digress 😂😂 Love this video! ☺️☺️
Me too! Imaging the blue and gold gown or the green one on the big screen
One point about the sword. There was something called the "hand-and-a-half sword" which was about halfway between the one-handed and two-handed versions. The idea was to be able to use it either way. Maybe the prince was carrying that.
Ooh! I like that idea! I didn’t know that😃
People assume Aurora doesn't have a personality when honestly... She's just an introvert! She clearly has a rich inner world and wistful imagination, AS EVIDENCED BY HER SONG AND DANCE, but she is not an extrovert and isn't comfortable expressing her every thought aloud. She still cares about the people she knows well and has deep emotional ties to the playmates she grew up with (forest animals). I was really similar to her as a kid (though i played with Barbies instead of animals), so she was the princess i liked most. Even after i became more like Belle, Aurora tigs at my heart strings and inner child
i really, *really* love how you released this wonderful video as the more popular costubers we’re releasing their disney-inspired creations! i think that’s how i stumbled upon your channel.. since i had just watched nicole rudolph’s houppelande/hannen videos and karolina zebrowska’s renaissance snow white video. i’m so glad i found you! thank you for sharing your expertise and art with us
I know right! I had no idea the costubers were planning all the Disney themed stuff, since I’m such a small channel. I was working on researching for this video for the past 5-6 months, uploaded it a little over a month ago and it had no views... and since all the Disney stuff the algorithm has been directing people to my channel and I am so grateful!
I love when people do a green gown for Aurora! I'm firmly in camp Merriweather (my family constantly says "make it blue" whenever we're picking something's color), but Fauna deserves more attention (and green is a very close second to blue).
Our sweet un-confrontational Fauna is underrated indeed!
*The green medieval dress is so lovely OwO
You´re right about the shield not being appropriate with the long sword. But a longsword is not that heavy! It can be carried and wielded with one hand. Just doesn´t make sense because you completely loose the advantage of a long sword, i.e. the sword covering you when not carrying a shield.... HEMA nerd out.
the faries look so cute in your version!
Thanks! I think so too!
Why do you only have 41 subscribers????? Where's everyone? You deserve way more!!
Morgan Donner come see this, please!
Thank you so much! Holy moly would that make my year of Morton Donner saw my video
"Pink!" "Blue!" "No, no, no! It has to be pink!"
Me: "How about purple? It has both colours🥲"
I love your Sleeping Beauty interpretation so much! Great job with all the research!
Fascinating! I learned quite a bit. This is my favorite Disney film and I love your attention to detail. Impressive!
It's interesting how they largely infused the then currently beauty and fashion ideals (which was the 1950's) into a medieval fairy tale. Looking at it from a 2021 perspective it's quite neat. But yeah, I do appreciate historical accuracy!
Makeup existed in Cleopatras day, and even before that, so I do believe they had makeup in some forms, it was just a big fat no no to wear it. Also, amazing video! You deserve way more followers!
Rewatching my vid I wish I hadn’t said makeup didn’t exist because I knew it existed in some form! I don’t know why i said that. Definitely finding mistakes even tho I spent so much time on research lol.
Rando on yt: makeup existed before Cleopatra's day.
Me (armchair historian who watches way too many documentaries): you know the ancient Greeks right? Well they existed before Cleopatra's was born. And then there was an ancient Greece before ancient Greece called Mycenaean Greece, and then another culture even before them called Minoan Greece and now archeologists have found a settlement suggesting that even in prehistory women would tattoo (or makeup idk for sure) their faces.
(Cycladic Greek Culture)
@@brianaschmidt910 Good For you? I’m glad you’re such a historian, those are interesting facts.
I really liked this. It was low-volumed, but I turned on CC and it helped. You might need a stronger mike pickup. The historical accuracy--THANK YOU! I am in the SCA and this has pricked me quite often. I overlook it for the sheer beauty of the movie and the way they tried to make it a living tapestry.
Love the laid-back energy, it feels like chatting with a friend; great video! I had to get subscribed immediately lol
Love this video! It would be so cool to see you do more Disney movies!
I have naturally very light blonde hair and brown dark eyebrows. I get the brown eyebrows from my dad and blond hair from my mom.
I love your dining room!
Good call with the french inspiration! „Sleeping Beauty“ (Or at least the most famous, Perrault version) is a french fairytale. Nicole Rudolph made a series recreating Maleficent‘s outfit, and she went with a 15th century look. Also, yeah, the fairies have little witch hats to signify they‘re magic, cause french fairies walked a very fine line between the little people of Great Britain‘s folklore and straight up human sorceresses
Can we get a hair tutorial on how you did your lovely hair please???! It’s really beautiful
Love the thing you did for Maleficent's horns
Thank you!
Although makup was seen as somewhat of a taboo during the middle ages, there are books about cosmetics written during this time. Aging in women was seen as a result of Eve's transgressions against god and L'ornement des Dames from the 13th century is a book about how to restore youthful beauty with cosmetics.
Well, cosmetics have been known to be used by celtic women (among others) since ancient times, they are pretty easy to make afterall. And just because the church wasn't happy about it, doesn't mean it wasn't done by the people, especially nobility when all they had to do was buy an indulgence letter to be cleansed of any 'sins'.
"The fairy godmothers were the main characters..." FINALLY! Someone who understands this :)
Great video, lovely dress.
You've got a new subscriber.
This was just recommended to me, hope it goes viral
You have such an engaging personality. I love how animated you are! Your script is casual but doesn’t drift. I learned a lot from watching your work. Thank you!
Thank you very much!
i really love how you went about this. it's very cool to see someone make one dress or costume based on a particular character, but, the way you did this, we get to see how all the characters might look, and learn about more kinds of medieval (in this case) fashion, and i found that soooooo interesting and satisfying! that may be because i'm more interested in history than sewing, but, either way, i enjoyed this a lot. (i hope this makes sense.)
Thank you! I have always loved art so I decided to draw the costumes instead of make them all because that could get VERY expensive!
Tbh, the head dresses of the fairies and Maleficent are pretty accurate, but debatable in the 14th century. They were called Hennins (one pointy conical hat, often with some thin and/or transparent piece of fabric attached to it or to the pointy point) and Escoffions (wrongly called 'double horn hennin' or 'heart shaped hennin'. They could very well look exactly what Maleficent is wearing, btw and there are more than enough paintings and portraits of women wearing all kinds of escoffions, including ones that look like all kinds of horns, with or without a veil ). The only debatable thing about those head pieces (as well as Maleficents costume) could be the time period. Escoffions are known to be widely popular in the 15th century, and were 'probably' already a thing at the end of the 14th century.
As for the authenticity of Maleficents outfit (pretty historically on point, except for a different medieval date), Nicole Rudolphs explains it very well in her cosplay video for a historically accurate Maleficent.
Oh, and btw: They had boots. They didn't look like that, of course, but boots existed.
I think Aurora with historically accurate clothes looks better and prettier than the original Aurora😂
if youtube puts the "making a historically accurate maleficent" by nicole rudolph into your list of upcomming videos, as the algorythm does for me... you might wanna click on it. she interprets that balck coat into a faboulus hupelande and gets very much into detail about the specific time she chose for the outfit. double hennin time...
Holy crap! I just realized something. When I was about 5 or 6, back in 1980 something, my mom made me a Sleeping Beauty costume. But she made it in Maleficent’s colors. My mother made me a hot pink and purple Sleeping Beauty costume because those were my favorite colors. I didn’t even realize that I made my costume basically if Maleficent was Sleeping Beauty. 😲
I love it😍
Nicole Rudolph just made an historically accurate Maleficient costume, check it out!
I was going to say that. :D
I loved what you had to share. I know that Nicole just did a video on Maleficint that in a lot of ways matched your redesign but you both came to that conclusion through different arguments. Thank you for being a new voice. Love the kirtles.
Sleeping Beauty is one of my favourite movies, and Aurora has one of my favourite wardrobes, only behind Belle and Cinderella
Aurora is truly a fashion icon✨
Okay this was absolutely great! I need more of this.
A really good video, and lovely edits! If you’re interested in a bit of critique on the video itself, keep reading, but if not, that’s completely okay.
I’d recommend writing a script for yourself, first off! I could be mistaken in thinking you don’t have one, but I think it could really help tighten up the delivery of your videos and make them even more engaging for potential viewers. I’d also recommend making sure the audio is level across all clips before posting. You can do this in free programs like audacity! I mention this because your opening clip is significantly louder than the rest of the video. You can also use audacity to remove noise to some degree!
I hope you keep on making videos, this was a wonderful watch 🤍🤎🤍
Thank you for the tips!
Not going to lie. The intro got me. I'll finish when I'm done editing my video
you did such an amazing job, miss! in fact I liked your versions of costumes more than original ones! also these braids on you look sooo good. thanks for this masterpiece!
I love this video so much! Great job!💗💙
It’s so great to hear a medieval fashion analysis. It’s definitely one of the least talked about eras. This was super informative and entertaining!
I always liked the Blue version best. I've never been fond of pink. Well it was my favorite color when I was little I think every girl goes through a pink phase unfortunately... I loved your final blue dress. But the green was beautiful too
No Eyebrow Briar Rose can’t hurt you........
She is all powerful
I love your video! "Sleeping Beauty" (along with "Beauty and the Beast") was my favourite Disney movie growing up. And I agree, it is a lot shorter than one remembers. But that is the case with most of the old movies. They just couldn't afford to make them longer as it was so expensive.
Personally I always thought the movie looked very medieval-ish in general (and heck, I don't care how inaccurate it is, I just LOVE to look at it!), but I adored your designs for the 14th century.
Fun fact: I was surprised at first, because in the German version Philipp says it takes place in the 13TH century, not the 14th. No idea why they changed that, the syllables needed are the exact same...
My UK version says C13th too 🤷♀️
I absolutely love how much effort you put into this. Your edit drawings are SO nice for a more visual person like me.
You’re so entertaining to listen to. Please do more videos like this!
I’ve been thinking about doing Cinderella. Or maybe Ariel because it’s so challenging to pinpoint exactly which era she is in.
I LOVE YOU THANK YOUUU
I love ur personality and loved the video
I love this video, and I just subscribed!! I do have a little note of cc, tho, it was really hard to hear you at the times your werent doing voiceover.
Peasants weren’t allowed to wear purple? That is so shellfish.
Overall great. But as a natural blonde, I must point out that not all blondes have blonde eyebrows. Mine are taupe (a slightly greyed medium brown).
All the naturally blonde people in the comments are educating me about this, and I appreciate it so much because I had NO idea that was a thing!