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Chivalry Sports commented on the costumes of The Tudors. 

Some of it is georgeous and some is so awful I want to scream. But I just watched the Tudor Stylemakers, http://www.sho.com/site/tudors/special_features.do , and the stylist admits that she has taken some awful big liberties. She wanted to give the audience the same visceral feeling about the clothing that the Tudors would have experienced. So if seeing a sheer fabric in the sleeves would have been shocking and bold in their period she had to step it up a notch to get the same effect from a modern audience. She was also trying to interpret the story and character through clothing rather than just regergitating history.

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The Tudors: Passion of a King

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For Joan Bergin, designing the costumes of THE TUDORS was more than a matter of researching the costumes of 16^thcentury . They needed to be interpreted. “The thinking behind the costumes was to present a deconstructed Tudor that the clothes wouldn’t be purist and odd for a contemporary audience,” she says. “I wanted the clothes to say to a modern audience: ‘how sexy’ or ‘how magnificent’ or whatever – not be strange. So that meant taking the Tudor garments and adding touches that allow you to relate to them in a modern way.”

“Henry was a rock star of his time, so we use a lot of leather and a lot of fabrics which are almost modern. The cut of the collar is high and flattering, with garments cut close to the body to accentuate his physique. He was the Mick Jagger of his day.”

Bergin takes most pride from the central role the costumes play in THE TUDORS: “What I’ve enjoyed most is that the series is very character-driven which means I can develop each character through the clothes they wear. So if you’re watching it week after week, you should be able to tell how the character has developed from the way they look – have they gone up or down in the social pecking order. Anne Boleyn is the most dramatic example. By the end of the series she’s pretty stunning!”