Is it me or do they always seem to get the top hats slightly wrong in these period things? Just looks wrong compared to pictures or paintings from this era (regency) and equally true of modern depictions of Victorian/Edwardian too.
It’s like those goth/dressage versions of the top hat, or people wearing stovepipes to be ‘authentically Victorian’ which were never that popular but for a very short time…or people who wear mourning felt hats to weddings (although that in part is because the story goes French brothers in Lyon who made the last of the silk plush fell out imany years ago and dramatically smashed the silk looms – hence no new silk toppers* -so rather expensive and hard to find a proper silk one)
Sorry, top hat rant over.
* although since writing this I found one place which is now doing new silk plush hats…so someone must be doing silk plush again…
Colin Firth in Pride & Prejudice.
