The third outfit Phryne wears in "Murder & the Maiden" (Season 3, Episode 2) is a gorgeous blue and purple coat with a matching purple cloche accented with blue floral embroidery.

The star of this outfit is the beautiful chinoise coat made of black silk with midnight blue damask floral designs and purple silk trim on the pockets and her lapped sleeve cuffs. Her coat is lined with purple silk, and has a standing mandarin collar with a single hidden closure at the waist. Marion Boyce, the costume designer, added cut out elements from original 1920's silk embroidery, attaching two large blue flowers to the left shoulder, as well as one on her hat. She finishes off her look with a blue silk organza floral brooch pinned to her shoulder.

Her accompanying cloche is a matching purple felt with a tight molded brim and decorative swoop near Phryne's left cheek, along with one of the silk embroidered flower motifs also seen on her coat.

Underneath her coat, Miss Fisher wears her dark blue camisole with small scalloped trim on the straight neckline, along with her navy blue wide leg silk faille pants. She accessorizes with a bag made of the same fabric as her coat, long teardrop earrings, and a large purple amethyst and diamond ring.

Season 3, Episode 2 - "Murder & the Maiden"

Screencaps from here, costume exhibition photos from Laura Emily's Flickr, and Marion Boyce's website.

I scream and rave about the costume design all the time but one detail with the fates specifically is how they have vails. Funeral vails. They tug them down after Eurydice decides to take hades offer, they’re proud as they do. It’s noticeable as most of the time they have them up in their wraps(?) I like the detail that while the workers become uniform , the fates and Persephone are in funeral attire. (Persephone’s is much more related to her own arch but it still applies to how the more ‘free’ citizens are in mourning compared to dead).

Tight laced control

This might be me looking too into it but I choose it just to be a good interpretation of context clues.

Satine’s makeover sequence and solo in ‘only girl in a material world’ are some of her strongest character moments in the entire musical. We see the realization slowly dawn on her just how controlling and self obsessed the Duke is when he’s not trying to win her over and keep up appearances. While he does all this in attempts to (literally) buy her love her posture, her clothing , who she is allowed to be around and her entire life are now under his control and his alone. As she’s put into the new dress she is being told that after her performance she is cut off from her world and not completely in his. She’s to live in a toy box until he decides to come play with her.

The greatest show of his maniulative behavior and the grip he has on Satine is in her corset. Now the scene is played off as a joke, she arrives at rehearsal and babydoll fawns over her dress resulting in a “tied down” joke. Satine is tightlaced. A corset shouldn’t hurt you, in fact they were largely comfortable when fitted properly (they were used much like bras today). Tightlacing would contort the body and make the small waist effect- you’d also be wearing it for far longer than the average woman. I believe the Duke, or his men while dressing her pulled her corset far too tight, too close and too much. He wants her to conform to his image so much so he is willing to physically reshape her body. I choose to believe it’s a intentional detail as it demonstrates their dynamic in a subtle way— and adds to Christian recognizing it’s not her doing. (I also like the idea , real or not, of lovers having their own way of re- lacing a corset with their own touch. There’s such a intimacy in that which also heightens this change in Satine’s attire)

Costume study of a dress from, 1830-37, England.

Dress study

by Wilhelm Wallander

Some alternate outfits for Clyborne and Rin while traveling across the major American cities (solving mysteries along the way).

We have outfits for general disguise, Historic Germantown, Virginia (Mothman festival), and New Orleans

Gesture costume study - 5.

I don't know what an automat is.

roommate took a stupid selfie and i photobombed it holding up my elvis themed cup. then i redrew it. and then i showed this redraw to my roommate and she said we should name each other Trapper and Hawkeye in our phones. but bc we sleep in the same room and spend all day at the same campus we really only text each other "are you out of class yet" "do you want to get lunch" "are you still in lab bc i want to get sandwiches" "i'm in the cafeteria where are you" "i'm omw to the caf is the food good today?" "no"

The third outfit of "Murder & the Maiden" (Season 3, Episode 2) is Phryne's disguise of a brown velvet jacket, black camisole and pants, along with an embroidered headwrap worn while trying to draw out the Russian Anarchists.

Borrowing Tatiana's embroidered headwrap and brown velvet coat to confuse the anarchists, the rest of Phryne's wardrobe is in similarly muted tones. The deep brown velvet caplet with mid-length sleeves and a wide collar (possibly allowing for a hood) is worn on top of her black camisole with a straight neckline and decorative scalloped edging. Her classic black wide leg silk faille pants add to the practicality and color of the outfit.

She accessorizes with fawn colored gloves embroidered with a black emblem of wheat, and a beautiful hand embroidered brown head wrap which features a variety of colors and types of floral embroidery, from large orange flowers to green grass to blue and red sprigs. The earth colors tie into her large leather bag and add to the somber tone of the scene. Phryne finishes off the outfit with dark strapped heels.

Season 3, Episode 2 - "Murder & the Maiden"

Screencaps from here, promotional photos from various sources (x, x, x).

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Costume studies, Tinn in Telemark

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I could talk for days about the costuming in the show, and I probably will. One of the small details I’d like to point out is Persephone’s hair. It’s easy to point and talk about her change from vibrant greens to dressing like she is headed for a funeral but I think her hair speaks volumes (ha)

Up top Persephone let’s herself loose. She’s dancing and moving- hell! She floats from person to person absolutely buzzing with excitement as everyone in the bar is so alive - literally! She’s loose and very telling with her body language. Her hair is down and wild as she is. She has a nice bit of flowers braided in too.

Down below she’s stiff. It’s like her clothes confine her just as much as the town and hades himself does. She still moves and has expression but she’ll toss her wrist instead of something full body. She gestures , she stands and she walks instead of floating. Here her hair is put into a snood, her hair is caged. All that wild energy is subdued, even the little flowers on it are black and dead (likely as apart of the snood and not real flowers but the point stands).

I just— this show has so much loving detail put into it down to the floors and the smallest fiber oh costumes and I’m so in love.