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* ''Film/MurdersInTheRueMorgue1971'' features many scenes of men in evening wear and women in glorious La Belle Époque evening gowns.
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* ''Film/{{Onmyoji}}'' is set in the Heian period, and accordingly, most of the female characters are seen in many layers of robes in different colors, though the men tend to be more drably dressed. However, the standouts are Seimei and his shikigami like Mitsumushi, who are always wearing beautiful, brightly colored clothes.
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* ''Film/{{Onmyoji}}'' ''Film/Onmyoji2001'' is set in the Heian period, and accordingly, most of the female characters are seen in many layers of robes in different colors, though the men tend to be more drably dressed. However, the standouts are Seimei and his shikigami like Mitsumushi, who are always wearing beautiful, brightly colored clothes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'':
** Elinor's dark blue dress is a work of art, and her iconic green dress is just as lovely.
** Although not as blatant as Elinor, the turquoise dress that Merida is effectively forced into by Elinor is the closest she gets. For most of the film, her dresses of choice tend to be simpler but no less nice.
** Elinor's dark blue dress is a work of art, and her iconic green dress is just as lovely.
** Although not as blatant as Elinor, the turquoise dress that Merida is effectively forced into by Elinor is the closest she gets. For most of the film, her dresses of choice tend to be simpler but no less nice.
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* The trope can be dated back to silent films of TheTwenties, which use the rather odd-looking two-colour red and green Technicolor. One such film is ''Phantom of the Opera'', which uses colourful costuming in a big ballroom scene.
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* The trope can be dated back to silent films of TheTwenties, TheRoaringTwenties, which use the rather odd-looking two-colour red and green Technicolor. One such film is ''Phantom ''[[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 Phantom of the Opera'', Opera]]'', which uses colourful costuming in a big ballroom scene.
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* The 1997 animated film ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' makes ample use of this trope.
* ''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya'' is set in the Heian period and features the often so-elaborate-it's-ludicrous court garments and fashion of that time. Since Princess Kaguya is the protagonist, there's a particular focus on women's fashion: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%ABnihitoe the 12-layer robe]] that totally covers the feet and hands, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth_blackening#Japan blackening of teeth]], and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikimayu shaved and repainted eyebrows]].
%% * ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''.
* The Creator/MartinScorsese version of ''Film/TheAgeOfInnocence'', starring Creator/MichellePfeiffer and Creator/WinonaRyder. In fact, virtually '''any''' movie or show based on a novel by Creator/HenryJames or Creator/EdithWharton (cf. ''Literature/ThePortraitOfALady'', ''The Europeans'', ''The House of Mirth'', ''The Buccaneers'', ''Literature/DaisyMiller'', etc.) is guaranteed to make ample use of this trope, seeing that both authors were writing about the upper classes of the late Victorian era.
* All film (as well as TV) versions of ''Literature/AnnaKarenina'' make use of this trope.
* ''Film/ArseneLupin2004'' with Kristin Scott-Thomas, seeing that it's about a gentleman thief who moves into Belle Epoque high society, uses this trope extensively.
* In ''''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|2014}}'''', while the story takes place in the early 19th century -- complete with empire line gowns and enormous bonnets -- the Beast's castle is essentially in a time bubble, meaning Belle gets to wear a lot of beautiful dresses from bygone eras, complete with tightly laced bodices and voluminous skirts.
* All film (as well as TV) versions of ''Literature/AnnaKarenina'' make use of this trope.
* ''Film/ArseneLupin2004'' with Kristin Scott-Thomas, seeing that it's about a gentleman thief who moves into Belle Epoque high society, uses this trope extensively.
* In ''''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|2014}}'''', while the story takes place in the early 19th century -- complete with empire line gowns and enormous bonnets -- the Beast's castle is essentially in a time bubble, meaning Belle gets to wear a lot of beautiful dresses from bygone eras, complete with tightly laced bodices and voluminous skirts.
* Countless UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} period movies fall into this. This is particularly true if said movies feature Ms. Aishwaya Rai. [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm767989248/tt0449994 Every.]] [[http://www.planetbollywood.com/Pictures/Posters/UmraoJaan/UmraoJaan11P.jpg Single.]] [[http://www.parigones.net/IMG/jpg/cinema_devdas_p1.jpg Time.]]
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' won an Oscar for its costumes, showcasing some splendid 1890s Victorian fashion. Most of Lucy Westenra's wardrobe is rich and elaborate. There is some HollywoodCostuming involved however since Lucy's neckline is a little too low. Mina's bustle dress is not as lavish and it's a few decades out of style, but used to show that a poor schoolmistress can't afford the latest fashions.
* ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' has Edith in some stunning turn-of-the-century dresses, and even her nightgown looks sumptuous. When it comes to the Sharpes, their clothes are nice but at least twenty years out of date - which is used to show they are {{Impoverished Patrician}}s. It's implied they're that broke they wear their parents' old clothes.
* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' is this trope in spades. The colors practically strobe they're so brilliant and every character is burdened by layer upon layer of exquisite brocade.
* ''Film/DarlingLili'' puts the titular Lili in many fancy ball gowns and formal wear from 1918, befitting of a FemmeFataleSpy. She seems to have a new splendid outfit in each scene.
* Creator/DeborahKerr was heavily typecast in {{Costume Drama}}s, so many of her initial roles in Hollywood feature her in this:
** In ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', Anna's stunning pink silk ballgown. However her gloves are quite wrong for the time period - hand waved by RuleOfGlamorous.
** ''Film/BlackNarcissus'' has a flashback to her upbringing in Ireland, where she dons a PimpedOutDress for an evening with her boyfriend - and she's presented with some emerald earrings and a necklace too.
** ''Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda'' sees her playing a Princess Flavia, who is seen attending a coronation and several DancesAndBalls - requiring many different fancy dresses for each. She at least subverts the ErmineCapeEffect by dressing a little more simply when she's alone with Rudolf.
** ''Film/KingSolomonsMines'' has her wearing quite a fancy Victorian gown at the beginning. But since it's not practical for the African jungle, that's all you get.
** ''Film/YoungBess'' features the most elaborate of Tudor era finery, as she plays the Queen consort UsefulNotes/CatherineParr. One of her dresses is a recreation of a gown Catherine wears in the famous portrait that was mistaken for Lady Jane Grey. ''Kitty Hollywood'' in her review stated that [[JustHereForGodzilla the costumes themselves were enough of a reason to watch the film]].
** ''Film/TeaAndSympathy'' is set in 1947 and gives her a scene where she's wearing a splendid green evening gown in preparation for a school dance she [[RuleOfGlamorous never ends up attending]].
** ''Film/TheInnocents'' at first shows her in grand crinoline dresses with HighClassGloves that are perhaps [[RuleOfGlamorous a little too elegant for a working-class governess to afford]]. As the film goes on, her clothes become more muted to reflect her deteriorating sanity. By the final scene, she's in a plain black dress.
%% * ''Film/TheDuellists''.
%% * ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' and the sequel ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age''.
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' won an Oscar for its costumes, showcasing some splendid 1890s Victorian fashion. Most of Lucy Westenra's wardrobe is rich and elaborate. There is some HollywoodCostuming involved however since Lucy's neckline is a little too low. Mina's bustle dress is not as lavish and it's a few decades out of style, but used to show that a poor schoolmistress can't afford the latest fashions.
* ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' has Edith in some stunning turn-of-the-century dresses, and even her nightgown looks sumptuous. When it comes to the Sharpes, their clothes are nice but at least twenty years out of date - which is used to show they are {{Impoverished Patrician}}s. It's implied they're that broke they wear their parents' old clothes.
* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' is this trope in spades. The colors practically strobe they're so brilliant and every character is burdened by layer upon layer of exquisite brocade.
* ''Film/DarlingLili'' puts the titular Lili in many fancy ball gowns and formal wear from 1918, befitting of a FemmeFataleSpy. She seems to have a new splendid outfit in each scene.
* Creator/DeborahKerr was heavily typecast in {{Costume Drama}}s, so many of her initial roles in Hollywood feature her in this:
** In ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', Anna's stunning pink silk ballgown. However her gloves are quite wrong for the time period - hand waved by RuleOfGlamorous.
** ''Film/BlackNarcissus'' has a flashback to her upbringing in Ireland, where she dons a PimpedOutDress for an evening with her boyfriend - and she's presented with some emerald earrings and a necklace too.
** ''Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda'' sees her playing a Princess Flavia, who is seen attending a coronation and several DancesAndBalls - requiring many different fancy dresses for each. She at least subverts the ErmineCapeEffect by dressing a little more simply when she's alone with Rudolf.
** ''Film/KingSolomonsMines'' has her wearing quite a fancy Victorian gown at the beginning. But since it's not practical for the African jungle, that's all you get.
** ''Film/YoungBess'' features the most elaborate of Tudor era finery, as she plays the Queen consort UsefulNotes/CatherineParr. One of her dresses is a recreation of a gown Catherine wears in the famous portrait that was mistaken for Lady Jane Grey. ''Kitty Hollywood'' in her review stated that [[JustHereForGodzilla the costumes themselves were enough of a reason to watch the film]].
** ''Film/TeaAndSympathy'' is set in 1947 and gives her a scene where she's wearing a splendid green evening gown in preparation for a school dance she [[RuleOfGlamorous never ends up attending]].
** ''Film/TheInnocents'' at first shows her in grand crinoline dresses with HighClassGloves that are perhaps [[RuleOfGlamorous a little too elegant for a working-class governess to afford]]. As the film goes on, her clothes become more muted to reflect her deteriorating sanity. By the final scene, she's in a plain black dress.
%% * ''Film/TheDuellists''.
%% * ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' and the sequel ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age''.
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* The ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series is a {{Prequel}} to the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films that starts off in TheRoaringTwenties and will likely [[ForegoneConclusion end with Dumbledore's defeat of Grindlewald in 1945]]). Since ''Harry Potter'' took place in a school and the present day, its costumes were nothing too much to write home about. ''Fantastic Beasts'' has much more ornate costume design than its parent series. It's not just the main characters who were immaculately beautiful period dresses either, the background extras are a CastOfSnowflakes who also all wear gorgeous clothes. The first film's Oscar for Best Costume Design was the entire franchise's first Oscar, nine movies in.
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* The ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series is a {{Prequel}} to the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films that starts off in TheRoaringTwenties and will likely [[ForegoneConclusion end with Dumbledore's defeat of Grindlewald in 1945]]). Since ''Harry Potter'' took place in a school and the present day, its costumes were nothing too much to write home about. ''Fantastic Beasts'' has much more ornate costume design than its parent series. It's not just the main characters who were immaculately beautiful period dresses either, the background extras are a CastOfSnowflakes who also all wear gorgeous clothes. The first film's Oscar for Best Costume Design was the entire franchise's first Oscar, nine movies
* The 2018 film ''Film/TheFavourite'' dresses its three female leads in lush early 18th Century costumes and surrounds them with a bevy of men in even more sumptuous dress. The characters played by Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, given they are taking on masculine political roles, sometimes dress in men's attire or women's attire that is styled to look masculine.
* Bizarrely combined with TheDungAges in ''Film/FleshAndBlood1985''.
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* Bizarrely combined with TheDungAges in ''Film/FleshAndBlood1985''.
* Many a JidaiGeki film displays the Japanese equivalent (though there are usually some, especially townspeople, wearing everyday clothes as well).
* ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' uses this to show off how wealthy Sara Crewe is. She arrives at the school wearing a splendid white coat and hat, and even the school uniform is quite elegant. Then when she loses all her wealth, she's reduced to wearing a simple black dress as she works as a servant.
* ''Film/{{Mandalay}}'': At the "Jardin d'Orient" nightclub, Tanya wears a stunning [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mandalay_lobbycard.png golden dress]] with matching jewelry and a white, fur boas.
* ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' uses this to show off how wealthy Sara Crewe is. She arrives at the school wearing a splendid white coat and hat, and even the school uniform is quite elegant. Then when she loses all her wealth, she's reduced to wearing a simple black dress as she works as a servant.
* ''Film/{{Mandalay}}'': At the "Jardin d'Orient" nightclub, Tanya wears a stunning [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mandalay_lobbycard.png golden dress]] with matching jewelry and a white, fur boas.
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* Countless UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} period movies fall into this. This is particularly true if said movies feature Ms. Aishwaya Rai. [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm767989248/tt0449994 Every.]] [[http://www.planetbollywood.com/Pictures/Posters/UmraoJaan/UmraoJaan11P.jpg Single.]] [[http://www.parigones.net/IMG/jpg/cinema_devdas_p1.jpg Time.]]
** ''Devdas'' and ''Jodhaa Akbar'', especially. GUH.
* Pretty much every Creator/MerchantIvory film ever made.
* One of the most famous Creator/WilliamShakespeare film adaptations, ''Theatre/HenryV'', directed by Creator/KennethBranagh, was famous for taking the story and laying on the mud and gore real thick on the period costuming to show medieval war in all its filthiness.
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier's version of ''Theatre/HenryV'' is a straight-up example of this trope, though; it was the first color Shakespeare film, intended as a morale-booster during World War II, and the look is heavily modeled on fifteenth-century manuscripts.
** Creator/KennethBranagh's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', however, had everyone dressed in extremely elaborate and colourful 19th-century military uniforms or billowy ball gowns. Most of it was a way to keep the audience's attention for the ([[Series/BlackAdder endless, uncut!]]) 4-hour movie, but it also set up a sharp contrast with Hamlet, who spent most of the movie in a black outfit.
* The first-class passengers' clothes in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', contrasted with the third-class's filthier clothes and segregated areas on board the titular ship.
* ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheThreeStooges''
* Many a JidaiGeki film displays the Japanese equivalent (though there are usually some, especially townspeople, wearing everyday clothes as well).
* The 1939 Warner Brothers film ''Film/ThePrivateLivesOfElizabethAndEssex'' reveled in the opportunity to show the splendid court dress of [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Elizabeth I.]] (Creator/BetteDavis) in Technicolor.
** ''Devdas'' and ''Jodhaa Akbar'', especially. GUH.
* Pretty much every Creator/MerchantIvory film ever made.
* One of the most famous Creator/WilliamShakespeare film adaptations, ''Theatre/HenryV'', directed by Creator/KennethBranagh, was famous for taking the story and laying on the mud and gore real thick on the period costuming to show medieval war in all its filthiness.
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier's version of ''Theatre/HenryV'' is a straight-up example of this trope, though; it was the first color Shakespeare film, intended as a morale-booster during World War II, and the look is heavily modeled on fifteenth-century manuscripts.
** Creator/KennethBranagh's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', however, had everyone dressed in extremely elaborate and colourful 19th-century military uniforms or billowy ball gowns. Most of it was a way to keep the audience's attention for the ([[Series/BlackAdder endless, uncut!]]) 4-hour movie, but it also set up a sharp contrast with Hamlet, who spent most of the movie in a black outfit.
* The first-class passengers' clothes in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', contrasted with the third-class's filthier clothes and segregated areas on board the titular ship.
* ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheThreeStooges''
* Many a JidaiGeki film displays the Japanese equivalent (though there are usually some, especially townspeople, wearing everyday clothes as well).
* The 1939 Warner Brothers film ''Film/ThePrivateLivesOfElizabethAndEssex'' reveled in the opportunity to show the splendid court dress of [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Elizabeth I.]] (Creator/BetteDavis) in Technicolor.
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** ''Devdas'' and ''Jodhaa Akbar'', especially. GUH.
* One of the most famous Creator/WilliamShakespeare film adaptations, ''Theatre/HenryV'', directed by Creator/KennethBranagh, was famous for taking the story and laying on the mud and gore real thick on the period costuming to show medieval war in all its filthiness.
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier's version of ''Theatre/HenryV'' is a straight-up example of this trope, though; it was the first color Shakespeare film, intended as a morale-booster during World War II, and the look is heavily modeled on fifteenth-century manuscripts.
** Creator/KennethBranagh's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', however, had everyone dressed in extremely elaborate and colourful 19th-century military uniforms or billowy ball gowns. Most of it was a way to keep the audience's attention for the ([[Series/BlackAdder endless, uncut!]]) 4-hour movie, but it also set up a sharp contrast with Hamlet, who spent most of the movie in a black outfit.
* The first-class passengers' clothes in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', contrasted with the third-class's filthier clothes and segregated areas on board the titular ship.
* ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheThreeStooges''
* Many a JidaiGeki film displays the Japanese equivalent (though there are usually some, especially townspeople, wearing everyday clothes as well).
* The 1939 Warner Brothers film ''Film/ThePrivateLivesOfElizabethAndEssex'' reveled in the opportunity to show the splendid court dress of [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Elizabeth I.]] (Creator/BetteDavis) in Technicolor.
%% * ''Film/MyFairLady''.
* ''Film/{{Onmyoji}}'' is set in the Heian period, and accordingly, most of the female characters are seen in many layers of robes in different colors, though the men tend to be more drably dressed. However, the standouts are Seimei and his shikigami like Mitsumushi, who are always wearing beautiful, brightly colored clothes.
* ''Film/{{Onmyoji}}'' is set in the Heian period, and accordingly, most of the female characters are seen in many layers of robes in different colors, though the men tend to be more drably dressed. However, the standouts are Seimei and his shikigami like Mitsumushi, who are always wearing beautiful, brightly colored clothes.
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* ''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya'' is set in the Heian period and features the often so-elaborate-it's-ludicrous court garments and fashion of that time. Since Princess Kaguya is the protagonist, there's a particular focus on women's fashion: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%ABnihitoe the 12-layer robe]] that totally covers the feet and hands, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth_blackening#Japan blackening of teeth]], and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikimayu shaved and repainted eyebrows]].
* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' is this trope in spades. The colors practically strobe they're so brilliant and every character is burdened by layer upon layer of exquisite brocade.
* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' is this trope in spades. The colors practically strobe they're so brilliant and every character is burdened by layer upon layer of exquisite brocade.
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* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' is this trope in spades. The colors practically strobe they're so brilliant and every character is burdened by layer upon layer of exquisite brocade.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Since the movies revolve around pirates, there isn't much of this flavor, but if you pay attention, the movies include a surprisingly great amount of PimpedOutDress. Elizabeth is guilty of this in the first two movies, before she TookALevelInBadass. And while we're on the subject, Norrington's uniform got pimped when he got promoted to admiral between the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] movies.
** A bit more of this in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], which includes some scenes of British and Spanish court officials and dress-uniformed officers.
** Since the movies revolve around pirates, there isn't much of this flavor, but if you pay attention, the movies include a surprisingly great amount of PimpedOutDress. Elizabeth is guilty of this in the first two movies, before she TookALevelInBadass. And while we're on the subject, Norrington's uniform got pimped when he got promoted to admiral between the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] movies.
** A bit more of this in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], which includes some scenes of British and Spanish court officials and dress-uniformed officers.
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* All film (as well as TV) versions of ''Literature/AnnaKarenina'' make use of this trope.
* ''Film/ArseneLupin2004'' with Kristin Scott-Thomas, seeing that it's about a gentleman thief who moves in Belle Epoque high society, uses this trope extensively.
* The 2018 film ''Film/TheFavourite'' dresses its three female leads in lush early 18th Century costumes and surrounds them with a bevy of men in even more sumptuous dress. The characters played by Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, given they are taking on masculine political roles, sometimes dress in men's attire or women's attire that is styled to look masculine.
* The Creator/MartinScorsese version of ''Film/TheAgeOfInnocence'', starring Creator/MichellePfeiffer and Creator/WinonaRyder. In fact, virtually '''any''' movie or show based on a novel by Creator/HenryJames or Creator/EdithWharton (cf. ''Literature/ThePortraitOfALady'', ''The Europeans'', ''The House of Mirth'', ''The Buccaneers'', ''Literature/DaisyMiller'', etc.) is guaranteed to make ample use of this trope, seeing that both authors were writing about the upper classes of the late Victorian era.
* The 1997 animated film ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' makes ample use of this trope.
* ''Film/MyFairLady''.
* ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' and the sequel ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age''.
* ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''.
* ''Film/TheDuellists''.
* ''Film/ArseneLupin2004'' with Kristin Scott-Thomas, seeing that it's about a gentleman thief who moves in Belle Epoque high society, uses this trope extensively.
* The 2018 film ''Film/TheFavourite'' dresses its three female leads in lush early 18th Century costumes and surrounds them with a bevy of men in even more sumptuous dress. The characters played by Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, given they are taking on masculine political roles, sometimes dress in men's attire or women's attire that is styled to look masculine.
* The Creator/MartinScorsese version of ''Film/TheAgeOfInnocence'', starring Creator/MichellePfeiffer and Creator/WinonaRyder. In fact, virtually '''any''' movie or show based on a novel by Creator/HenryJames or Creator/EdithWharton (cf. ''Literature/ThePortraitOfALady'', ''The Europeans'', ''The House of Mirth'', ''The Buccaneers'', ''Literature/DaisyMiller'', etc.) is guaranteed to make ample use of this trope, seeing that both authors were writing about the upper classes of the late Victorian era.
* The 1997 animated film ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' makes ample use of this trope.
* ''Film/MyFairLady''.
* ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' and the sequel ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age''.
* ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''.
* ''Film/TheDuellists''.
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* ''Film/ArseneLupin2004'' with Kristin Scott-Thomas, seeing that it's about a gentleman thief who moves in Belle Epoque high society, uses this trope extensively.
* The Creator/MartinScorsese version of ''Film/TheAgeOfInnocence'', starring Creator/MichellePfeiffer and Creator/WinonaRyder. In fact, virtually '''any''' movie or show based on a novel by Creator/HenryJames or Creator/EdithWharton (cf. ''Literature/ThePortraitOfALady'', ''The Europeans'', ''The House of Mirth'', ''The Buccaneers'', ''Literature/DaisyMiller'', etc.) is guaranteed to make ample use of this trope, seeing that both authors were writing about the upper classes of the late Victorian era.
* The 1997 animated film ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' makes ample use of this trope.
* ''Film/MyFairLady''.
* ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' and the sequel ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age''.
* ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''.
* ''Film/TheDuellists''.
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* In ''''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|2014}}'''', while the story takes place in the early 19th century -- complete with empire line gowns and enormous bonnets -- the Beast's castle is essentially in a time bubble, meaning Belle gets to wear a lot of beautiful dresses from bygone eras, complete with tightly laced bodices and voluminous skirts.
* Love it or hate it, ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' had awesome costumes.
* Creator/DeborahKerr was heavily typecast in {{Costume Drama}}s, so many of her initial roles in Hollywood feature her in this:
** In ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', Anna's stunning pink silk ballgown. However her gloves are quite wrong for the time period - hand waved by RuleOfGlamorous.
** ''Film/BlackNarcissus'' has a flashback to her upbringing in Ireland, where she dons a PimpedOutDress for an evening with her boyfriend - and she's presented with some emerald earrings and a necklace too.
** ''Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda'' sees her playing a Princess Flavia, who is seen attending a coronation and several DancesAndBalls - requiring many different fancy dresses for each. She at least subverts the ErmineCapeEffect by dressing a little more simply when she's alone with Rudolf.
** ''Film/KingSolomonsMines'' has her wearing quite a fancy Victorian gown at the beginning. But since it's not practical for the African jungle, that's all you get.
** ''Film/YoungBess'' features the most elaborate of Tudor era finery, as she plays the Queen consort UsefulNotes/CatherineParr. One of her dresses is a recreation of a gown Catherine wears in the famous portrait that was mistaken for Lady Jane Grey. ''Kitty Hollywood'' in her review stated that [[JustHereForGodzilla the costumes themselves were enough of a reason to watch the film]].
** ''Film/TeaAndSympathy'' is set in 1947 and gives her a scene where she's wearing a splendid green evening gown in preparation for a school dance she [[RuleOfGlamorous never ends up attending]].
** ''Film/TheInnocents'' at first shows her in grand crinoline dresses with HighClassGloves that are perhaps [[RuleOfGlamorous a little too elegant for a working-class governess to afford]]. As the film goes on, her clothes become more muted to reflect her deteriorating sanity. By the final scene, she's in a plain black dress.
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' won an Oscar for its costumes, showcasing some splendid 1890s Victorian fashion. Most of Lucy Westenra's wardrobe is rich and elaborate. There is some HollywoodCostuming involved however since Lucy's neckline is a little too low. Mina's bustle dress is not as lavish and it's a few decades out of style, but used to show that a poor schoolmistress can't afford the latest fashions.
* In ''Film/AStudyInTerror'', all of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's victims are dressed in outfits that are far too elegant (and clean) for a real East End prostitute.
* Love it or hate it, ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' had awesome costumes.
* Creator/DeborahKerr was heavily typecast in {{Costume Drama}}s, so many of her initial roles in Hollywood feature her in this:
** In ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', Anna's stunning pink silk ballgown. However her gloves are quite wrong for the time period - hand waved by RuleOfGlamorous.
** ''Film/BlackNarcissus'' has a flashback to her upbringing in Ireland, where she dons a PimpedOutDress for an evening with her boyfriend - and she's presented with some emerald earrings and a necklace too.
** ''Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda'' sees her playing a Princess Flavia, who is seen attending a coronation and several DancesAndBalls - requiring many different fancy dresses for each. She at least subverts the ErmineCapeEffect by dressing a little more simply when she's alone with Rudolf.
** ''Film/KingSolomonsMines'' has her wearing quite a fancy Victorian gown at the beginning. But since it's not practical for the African jungle, that's all you get.
** ''Film/YoungBess'' features the most elaborate of Tudor era finery, as she plays the Queen consort UsefulNotes/CatherineParr. One of her dresses is a recreation of a gown Catherine wears in the famous portrait that was mistaken for Lady Jane Grey. ''Kitty Hollywood'' in her review stated that [[JustHereForGodzilla the costumes themselves were enough of a reason to watch the film]].
** ''Film/TeaAndSympathy'' is set in 1947 and gives her a scene where she's wearing a splendid green evening gown in preparation for a school dance she [[RuleOfGlamorous never ends up attending]].
** ''Film/TheInnocents'' at first shows her in grand crinoline dresses with HighClassGloves that are perhaps [[RuleOfGlamorous a little too elegant for a working-class governess to afford]]. As the film goes on, her clothes become more muted to reflect her deteriorating sanity. By the final scene, she's in a plain black dress.
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' won an Oscar for its costumes, showcasing some splendid 1890s Victorian fashion. Most of Lucy Westenra's wardrobe is rich and elaborate. There is some HollywoodCostuming involved however since Lucy's neckline is a little too low. Mina's bustle dress is not as lavish and it's a few decades out of style, but used to show that a poor schoolmistress can't afford the latest fashions.
* In ''Film/AStudyInTerror'', all of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's victims are dressed in outfits that are far too elegant (and clean) for a real East End prostitute.
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* Love it or hate it, ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' had awesome costumes.
* Creator/DeborahKerr was heavily typecast in {{Costume Drama}}s, so many of her initial roles in Hollywood feature her in this:
** In ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', Anna's stunning pink silk ballgown. However her gloves are quite wrong for the time period - hand waved by RuleOfGlamorous.
** ''Film/BlackNarcissus'' has a flashback to her upbringing in Ireland, where she dons a PimpedOutDress for an evening with her boyfriend - and she's presented with some emerald earrings and a necklace too.
** ''Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda'' sees her playing a Princess Flavia, who is seen attending a coronation and several DancesAndBalls - requiring many different fancy dresses for each. She at least subverts the ErmineCapeEffect by dressing a little more simply when she's alone with Rudolf.
** ''Film/KingSolomonsMines'' has her wearing quite a fancy Victorian gown at the beginning. But since it's not practical for the African jungle, that's all you get.
** ''Film/YoungBess'' features the most elaborate of Tudor era finery, as she plays the Queen consort UsefulNotes/CatherineParr. One of her dresses is a recreation of a gown Catherine wears in the famous portrait that was mistaken for Lady Jane Grey. ''Kitty Hollywood'' in her review stated that [[JustHereForGodzilla the costumes themselves were enough of a reason to watch the film]].
** ''Film/TeaAndSympathy'' is set in 1947 and gives her a scene where she's wearing a splendid green evening gown in preparation for a school dance she [[RuleOfGlamorous never ends up attending]].
** ''Film/TheInnocents'' at first shows her in grand crinoline dresses with HighClassGloves that are perhaps [[RuleOfGlamorous a little too elegant for a working-class governess to afford]]. As the film goes on, her clothes become more muted to reflect her deteriorating sanity. By the final scene, she's in a plain black dress.
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' won an Oscar for its costumes, showcasing some splendid 1890s Victorian fashion. Most of Lucy Westenra's wardrobe is rich and elaborate. There is some HollywoodCostuming involved however since Lucy's neckline is a little too low. Mina's bustle dress is not as lavish and it's a few decades out of style, but used to show that a poor schoolmistress can't afford the latest fashions.
* In ''Film/AStudyInTerror'', all of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's victims are dressed in outfits that are far too elegant (and clean) for a real East End prostitute.
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* ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' has Edith in some stunning turn of the century dresses, and even her nightgown looks sumptuous. When it comes to the Sharpes, their clothes are nice but at least twenty years out of date - which is used to show they are {{Impoverished Patrician}}s. It's implied they're that broke they wear their parents' old clothes.
* ''Film/DarlingLili'' puts the titular Lili in many fancy ball gowns and formal wear from 1918, befitting of a FemmeFataleSpy. She seems to have a new splendid outfit in each scene.
* ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' uses this to show off how wealthy Sara Crewe is. She arrives at the school wearing a splendid white coat and hat, and even the school uniform is quite elegant. Then when she loses all her wealth, she's reduced to wearing a simple black dress as she works as a servant.
* ''Film/SherlockCaseOfEvil'' includes several scenes set at high society balls seemingly for no other reason to allow both women and men (including a fine looking Franchise/SherlockHolmes played by Creator/JamesDArcy) to be seen in magnificent period outfits.
* ''Film/{{Onmyoji}}'' is set in the Heian period, and accordingly, most of the female characters are seen in many layers of robes in different colors, though the men tend to be more drably dressed. However, the standouts are Seimei and his shikigami like Mitsumushi, who are always wearing beautiful, brightly colored clothes.
* ''Film/{{Mandalay}}'': At the "Jardin d'Orient" nightclub, Tanya wears a stunning [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mandalay_lobbycard.png golden dress]] with matching jewelry and a white, fur boas.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Since the movies revolve around pirates, there isn't much of this flavor, but if you pay attention, the movies include a surprisingly great amount of PimpedOutDress. Elizabeth is guilty of this in the first two movies, before she TookALevelInBadass. And while we're on the subject, Norrington's uniform got pimped when he got promoted to admiral between the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] movies.
** A bit more of this in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], which includes some scenes of British and Spanish court officials and dress-uniformed officers.
* ''Film/DarlingLili'' puts the titular Lili in many fancy ball gowns and formal wear from 1918, befitting of a FemmeFataleSpy. She seems to have a new splendid outfit in each scene.
* ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' uses this to show off how wealthy Sara Crewe is. She arrives at the school wearing a splendid white coat and hat, and even the school uniform is quite elegant. Then when she loses all her wealth, she's reduced to wearing a simple black dress as she works as a servant.
* ''Film/SherlockCaseOfEvil'' includes several scenes set at high society balls seemingly for no other reason to allow both women and men (including a fine looking Franchise/SherlockHolmes played by Creator/JamesDArcy) to be seen in magnificent period outfits.
* ''Film/{{Onmyoji}}'' is set in the Heian period, and accordingly, most of the female characters are seen in many layers of robes in different colors, though the men tend to be more drably dressed. However, the standouts are Seimei and his shikigami like Mitsumushi, who are always wearing beautiful, brightly colored clothes.
* ''Film/{{Mandalay}}'': At the "Jardin d'Orient" nightclub, Tanya wears a stunning [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mandalay_lobbycard.png golden dress]] with matching jewelry and a white, fur boas.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Since the movies revolve around pirates, there isn't much of this flavor, but if you pay attention, the movies include a surprisingly great amount of PimpedOutDress. Elizabeth is guilty of this in the first two movies, before she TookALevelInBadass. And while we're on the subject, Norrington's uniform got pimped when he got promoted to admiral between the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] movies.
** A bit more of this in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], which includes some scenes of British and Spanish court officials and dress-uniformed officers.
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* ''Film/DarlingLili'' puts the titular Lili in many fancy ball gowns and formal wear from 1918, befitting of a FemmeFataleSpy. She seems to have a new splendid outfit in each scene.
* ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' uses this to show off how wealthy Sara Crewe is. She arrives at the school wearing a splendid white coat and hat, and even the school uniform is quite elegant. Then when she loses all her wealth, she's reduced to wearing a simple black dress as she works as a servant.
* ''Film/{{Onmyoji}}'' is set in the Heian period, and accordingly, most of the female characters are seen in many layers of robes in different colors, though the men tend to be more drably dressed. However, the standouts are Seimei and his shikigami like Mitsumushi, who are always wearing beautiful, brightly colored clothes.
* ''Film/{{Mandalay}}'': At the "Jardin d'Orient" nightclub, Tanya wears a stunning [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mandalay_lobbycard.png golden dress]] with matching jewelry and a white, fur boas.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Since the movies revolve around pirates, there isn't much of this flavor, but if you pay attention, the movies include a surprisingly great amount of PimpedOutDress. Elizabeth is guilty of this in the first two movies, before she TookALevelInBadass. And while we're on the subject, Norrington's uniform got pimped when he got promoted to admiral between the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] movies.
** A bit more of this in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], which includes some scenes of British and Spanish court officials and dress-uniformed officers.
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%% * ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheThreeStooges''.
* In ''Film/AStudyInTerror'', all of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's victims are dressed in outfits that are far too elegant (and clean) for a real East End prostitute.
* The first-class passengers' clothes in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', contrasted with the third-class's filthier clothes and segregated areas on board the titular ship.
* Creator/WilliamShakespeare film adaptations
** ''Theatre/HenryV'', directed by Creator/KennethBranagh, is famous for taking the story and laying on the mud and gore real thick on the period costuming to show medieval war in all its filthiness.
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier's version of ''Theatre/HenryV'' is an {{enforced}} example. It was the first color Shakespeare film, intended as a morale booster during World War II, so the look is heavily modeled on fifteenth-century manuscripts.
** Creator/KennethBranagh's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' has everyone dressed in extremely elaborate and colourful 19th-century military uniforms or billowy ball gowns. Most of it was a way to keep the audience's attention for the ([[Series/BlackAdder endless, uncut!]]) 4-hour movie, but it also set up a sharp contrast with Hamlet, who spent most of the movie in a black outfit.
%% * Love it or hate it, ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' had awesome costumes.
* In ''Film/AStudyInTerror'', all of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's victims are dressed in outfits that are far too elegant (and clean) for a real East End prostitute.
* The first-class passengers' clothes in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', contrasted with the third-class's filthier clothes and segregated areas on board the titular ship.
* Creator/WilliamShakespeare film adaptations
** ''Theatre/HenryV'', directed by Creator/KennethBranagh, is famous for taking the story and laying on the mud and gore real thick on the period costuming to show medieval war in all its filthiness.
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier's version of ''Theatre/HenryV'' is an {{enforced}} example. It was the first color Shakespeare film, intended as a morale booster during World War II, so the look is heavily modeled on fifteenth-century manuscripts.
** Creator/KennethBranagh's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' has everyone dressed in extremely elaborate and colourful 19th-century military uniforms or billowy ball gowns. Most of it was a way to keep the audience's attention for the ([[Series/BlackAdder endless, uncut!]]) 4-hour movie, but it also set up a sharp contrast with Hamlet, who spent most of the movie in a black outfit.
%% * Love it or hate it, ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' had awesome costumes.
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* The ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series is a {{Prequel}} to the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films that starts off in TheRoaringTwenties and will likely [[ForegoneConclusion end with Dumbledore's defeat of Grindlewald in 1945]]). Since ''Harry Potter'' took place in a school and the present day, its costumes were nothing too much to write home about. ''Fantastic Beasts'' has much more ornate costume design than its parent series. It's not just the main characters who were immaculately beautiful period dresses either, the background extras are a CastOfSnowflakes who also all wear gorgeous clothes. The first film's Oscar for Best Costume Design was the entire franchise's first Oscar, nine movies in.
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* The ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series is a {{Prequel}} to the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films that starts off in TheRoaringTwenties and will likely [[ForegoneConclusion end with Dumbledore's defeat of Grindlewald in 1945]]). Since ''Harry Potter'' took place in a school and the present day, its costumes were nothing too much to write home about. ''Fantastic Beasts'' has much more ornate costume design than its parent series. It's not just the main characters who were immaculately beautiful period dresses either, the background extras are a CastOfSnowflake who also all wear gorgeous clothes. The first film's Oscar for Best Costume Design was the entire franchise's first Oscar, nine movies in.
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** His [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto1_250_40.png blue armor]], complete with a cape, with golden figurines on the leather breastplate and equally golden trimmings on the groin protections and shoulder plates.
** This [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto2_250_2.png regal outfit]].
** This [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto6_250_68.png red tunic]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dqpibn5wwayimnm.jpg]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_42450ee987d33d852aa4fd3b21654d8e_c0bf9185_400.jpg]].
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** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e865a186c4a03efa2894864b208208d4.jpg]].
** This [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto2_250_2.png regal outfit]].
** This [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto6_250_68.png red tunic]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dqpibn5wwayimnm.jpg]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_42450ee987d33d852aa4fd3b21654d8e_c0bf9185_400.jpg]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/352d01d1afb58e40e4430b20460aca59.jpg]].
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** His The [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto1_250_40.png blue armor]], armor]] he wears in the Battle of Carthage, complete with a cape, with golden figurines on the leather breastplate and equally golden trimmings on the groin protections and shoulder plates.
** This [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto2_250_2.png dark purple regaloutfit]].
outfit]] with angel sleeves with golden embroideries and trimmings. Of special notice is the intricate pattern on the waistline.
** This [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto6_250_68.png redtunic]].
tunic]] with golden ornamentation below the neckline and a blue toga (also with golden embroideries) draped over it. Crowned with a metal laurel wreath. Oh, and there are also golden trims on his Caliga boots.
** His [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dqpibn5wwayimnm.jpg]].
jpg leather, brown armor]] with, yes, you guessed! More golden stuff -- figurines on his boots, the fastenings on his shoulder pads, the embroidery on his white, short cape and tunic, and a gold pendant.
** Against all common sense, not all of Commodus's outfits sport gold for their ornaments. There's this [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_42450ee987d33d852aa4fd3b21654d8e_c0bf9185_400.jpg]].
jpg purple armor]] with silver motifs all over it. He's still wearing his gold laurel wreath, though.
** The [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/352d01d1afb58e40e4430b20460aca59.jpg]].
jpg black armor]] he wears in the Battle of Tigris is laced with subtle silver for the most part (figurines and trims) and gold in the accessories such as cords and chains.
** His glorious, LightIsNotGood [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e865a186c4a03efa2894864b208208d4.jpg]].
jpg white armor]]. This one takes the cake because, while sporting the same ornaments as its predecessors, it looks as if it was sculpted on marble, making Commodus look like the statue of a mythological character that came to life.
** This [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto2_250_2.png dark purple regal
** This [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto6_250_68.png red
** His [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dqpibn5wwayimnm.
** Against all common sense, not all of Commodus's outfits sport gold for their ornaments. There's this [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_42450ee987d33d852aa4fd3b21654d8e_c0bf9185_400.
** The [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/352d01d1afb58e40e4430b20460aca59.
** His glorious, LightIsNotGood [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e865a186c4a03efa2894864b208208d4.
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* ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'': Historical accuracy aside, the outfits and armors Emperor Commodus wears are all examples of this trope
** His [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto1_250_40.png blue armor]], complete with a cape, with golden figurines on the leather breastplate and equally golden trimmings on the groin protections and shoulder plates.
** This [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto2_250_2.png regal outfit]].
** This [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto6_250_68.png red tunic]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dqpibn5wwayimnm.jpg]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_42450ee987d33d852aa4fd3b21654d8e_c0bf9185_400.jpg]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/352d01d1afb58e40e4430b20460aca59.jpg]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e865a186c4a03efa2894864b208208d4.jpg]].
** His [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto1_250_40.png blue armor]], complete with a cape, with golden figurines on the leather breastplate and equally golden trimmings on the groin protections and shoulder plates.
** This [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto2_250_2.png regal outfit]].
** This [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_nd05xintgu1ruwssto6_250_68.png red tunic]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dqpibn5wwayimnm.jpg]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_42450ee987d33d852aa4fd3b21654d8e_c0bf9185_400.jpg]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/352d01d1afb58e40e4430b20460aca59.jpg]].
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e865a186c4a03efa2894864b208208d4.jpg]].
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* Japanese film ''Film/GateOfHell'' is a prototypical Technicolor example from TheFifties. Lots of ornate 12th-century costumes. Won an Oscar for costume design.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Since the movies revolve around pirates, there isn't much of this flavor, but if you pay attention, the movies include a surprisingly great amount of PimpedOutDress. Elizabeth is guilty of this in the first two movies, before she TookALevelInBadass. And while we're on the subject, Norrington's uniform got pimped when he got promoted to admiral between the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] movies.
** A bit more of this in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], which includes some scenes of British and Spanish court officials and dress-uniformed officers.
* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', also released in 1939, is in some places a validation, in others an aversion of this trope; Scarlett dresses sumptuously in many scenes (the famous green dress she made from lace curtains, or the equally famous scarlet gown) but very much in a down-at-the-heels manner in the postwar scenes where she's struggling to save Tara.
* ''Lots'' in the 1998 movie ''Film/EverAfter''.
* The 1935 film ''Film/BeckySharp'', an adaptation of Thackeray's ''Literature/VanityFair'' and the first-ever full-colour film, popularised this trope.
* However, it can be dated back even further to 1920s silent films that use the rather odd-looking two-colour red and green Technicolor. One such film is ''Phantom of the Opera'', which uses colourful costuming in a big ballroom scene.
** Subverted in TheMovie of TheMusical which had all the costume ball dancers in black and white, rendering lyrics like "Splash of puce/Flash of red" completely moot. Actually, going by the "colorful" criteria, only the Diva wears anything wildly colorful and it's mostly pink anyway.
* Many of the early [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney films]], such as the ball in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. [[Film/Cinderella2015 The live-action remake]] had colors so vibrant that, for example, Cinderella's dress had to be edited in post to be ''that blue'' in the lighting of the movie.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Since the movies revolve around pirates, there isn't much of this flavor, but if you pay attention, the movies include a surprisingly great amount of PimpedOutDress. Elizabeth is guilty of this in the first two movies, before she TookALevelInBadass. And while we're on the subject, Norrington's uniform got pimped when he got promoted to admiral between the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] movies.
** A bit more of this in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], which includes some scenes of British and Spanish court officials and dress-uniformed officers.
* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', also released in 1939, is in some places a validation, in others an aversion of this trope; Scarlett dresses sumptuously in many scenes (the famous green dress she made from lace curtains, or the equally famous scarlet gown) but very much in a down-at-the-heels manner in the postwar scenes where she's struggling to save Tara.
* ''Lots'' in the 1998 movie ''Film/EverAfter''.
* The 1935 film ''Film/BeckySharp'', an adaptation of Thackeray's ''Literature/VanityFair'' and the first-ever full-colour film, popularised this trope.
* However, it can be dated back even further to 1920s silent films that use the rather odd-looking two-colour red and green Technicolor. One such film is ''Phantom of the Opera'', which uses colourful costuming in a big ballroom scene.
** Subverted in TheMovie of TheMusical which had all the costume ball dancers in black and white, rendering lyrics like "Splash of puce/Flash of red" completely moot. Actually, going by the "colorful" criteria, only the Diva wears anything wildly colorful and it's mostly pink anyway.
* Many of the early [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney films]], such as the ball in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. [[Film/Cinderella2015 The live-action remake]] had colors so vibrant that, for example, Cinderella's dress had to be edited in post to be ''that blue'' in the lighting of the movie.
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*
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
**
** A bit more of this in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], which includes some scenes of British and Spanish court officials and dress-uniformed officers.
* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', also released in 1939, is in some places a validation, in others an aversion of this trope; Scarlett dresses sumptuously in many scenes (the famous green dress she made from lace curtains, or the equally famous scarlet gown) but very much in a down-at-the-heels manner in the postwar scenes where she's struggling to save Tara.
* ''Lots'' in the 1998 movie ''Film/EverAfter''.
* The 1935 film ''Film/BeckySharp'', an adaptation of Thackeray's ''Literature/VanityFair'' and the first-ever full-colour film, popularised this trope.
* However, it can be dated back even further to 1920s silent films that use the rather odd-looking two-colour red and green Technicolor. One such film is ''Phantom of the Opera'', which uses colourful costuming in a big ballroom scene.
** Subverted in TheMovie of TheMusical which had all the costume ball dancers in black and white, rendering lyrics like "Splash of puce/Flash of red" completely moot. Actually, going by the "colorful" criteria, only the Diva wears anything wildly colorful and it's mostly pink anyway.
*
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!! Live-Action
* The trope can be dated back to silent films of TheTwenties, which use the rather odd-looking two-colour red and green Technicolor. One such film is ''Phantom of the Opera'', which uses colourful costuming in a big ballroom scene.
%% * Subverted in TheMovie of TheMusical which had all the costume ball dancers in black and white, rendering lyrics like "Splash of puce/Flash of red" completely moot. Actually, going by the "colorful" criteria, only the Diva wears anything wildly colorful and it's mostly pink anyway.
%% Please check the above example. It looks like it's shoehorned to this trope.
!! Live-Action
* The trope can be dated back to silent films of TheTwenties, which use the rather odd-looking two-colour red and green Technicolor. One such film is ''Phantom of the Opera'', which uses colourful costuming in a big ballroom scene.
%% * Subverted in TheMovie of TheMusical which had all the costume ball dancers in black and white, rendering lyrics like "Splash of puce/Flash of red" completely moot. Actually, going by the "colorful" criteria, only the Diva wears anything wildly colorful and it's mostly pink anyway.
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* The 1947 René Clair movie ''Le silence est d'or'' (''Man About Town''), starring Creator/MauriceChevalier, featured late-Victorian-era Gorgeous Period Dress designed by no less a luminary than Christian Dior himself (his New Look, in fact, was in no small part derived from the sumptuous elegance of late Victorian and Edwardian fashion).
** ''Gigi'', also starring Chevalier and Leslie Caron, is positively stuffed with Edwardian Gorgeous Period Dress.
** ''Gigi'', also starring Chevalier and Leslie Caron, is positively stuffed with Edwardian Gorgeous Period Dress.
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** ''Gigi'', also starring Chevalier and Leslie Caron, is positively stuffed with Edwardian Gorgeous Period Dress.
* The 1935 film ''Film/BeckySharp'', an adaptation of Thackeray's ''Literature/VanityFair'' and the first-ever full-colour film, popularised this trope.
%% * ''Lots'' in the 1998 movie ''Film/EverAfter''.
* Japanese film ''Film/GateOfHell'' is a prototypical Technicolor example from TheFifties. Lots of ornate 12th-century costumes. Won an Oscar for costume design.
* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', also released in 1939, is in some places a validation, in others an aversion of this trope; Scarlett dresses sumptuously in many scenes (the famous green dress she made from lace curtains, or the equally famous scarlet gown) but very much in a down-at-the-heels manner in the postwar scenes where she's struggling to save Tara.
%% * ''Lots'' in the 1998 movie ''Film/EverAfter''.
* Japanese film ''Film/GateOfHell'' is a prototypical Technicolor example from TheFifties. Lots of ornate 12th-century costumes. Won an Oscar for costume design.
* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', also released in 1939, is in some places a validation, in others an aversion of this trope; Scarlett dresses sumptuously in many scenes (the famous green dress she made from lace curtains, or the equally famous scarlet gown) but very much in a down-at-the-heels manner in the postwar scenes where she's struggling to save Tara.
* Bizarrely combined with TheDungAges in ''Film/FleshAndBlood1985''.
* ''Film/{{Gigi}}'', starring Creator/MauriceChevalier and Leslie Caron, is positively stuffed with Edwardian Gorgeous Period Dresses.
* ''Film/{{Gigi}}'', starring Creator/MauriceChevalier and Leslie Caron, is positively stuffed with Edwardian Gorgeous Period Dresses.
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** ''Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein'' and ''The Man Who Could Cheat Death'', starring legendary Film/HammerHorror redheaded beauty Creator/HazelCourt, are excellent examples.
* Bizarrely combined with TheDungAges in ''Film/FleshAndBlood1985''.
* Can't forget ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''; Lucilla and Commodus's clothes (not to mention where they live) seem a bit too nice for TheDungAges.
** If anything, Commodus's clothing was too understated and rough. He should have looked like an overblown UsefulNotes/LouisXIV.
*** The Romans didn't live in TheDungAges. Almost every character in ''Gladiator'' was underdressed and far too filthy to be realistic -- even the slaves should have been spotlessly clean and neatly dressed.
*** Neither extreme is remotely realistic. Yes, the nobility had very good hygiene and fancy clothes in the period, but the common folk and the slaves were much less well off. When you work all day in the hot sun, you're going to look like it, and bathing every day was just too expensive for most outside the population centers where free public baths were open for all except slaves.
* Bizarrely combined with TheDungAges in ''Film/FleshAndBlood1985''.
* Can't forget ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''; Lucilla and Commodus's clothes (not to mention where they live) seem a bit too nice for TheDungAges.
** If anything, Commodus's clothing was too understated and rough. He should have looked like an overblown UsefulNotes/LouisXIV.
*** The Romans didn't live in TheDungAges. Almost every character in ''Gladiator'' was underdressed and far too filthy to be realistic -- even the slaves should have been spotlessly clean and neatly dressed.
*** Neither extreme is remotely realistic. Yes, the nobility had very good hygiene and fancy clothes in the period, but the common folk and the slaves were much less well off. When you work all day in the hot sun, you're going to look like it, and bathing every day was just too expensive for most outside the population centers where free public baths were open for all except slaves.
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** ''Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein'' and ''The Man Who Could Cheat Death'', ''Film/TheManWhoCouldCheatDeath'', starring legendary Film/HammerHorror (in the genre) redheaded beauty Creator/HazelCourt, are excellent examples.
* Bizarrely combined with TheDungAges in ''Film/FleshAndBlood1985''.
* Can't forget ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''; Lucilla and Commodus's clothes (not to mention where they live) seem a bit too nice for TheDungAges.
** If anything, Commodus's clothing was too understated and rough. He should have looked like an overblown UsefulNotes/LouisXIV.
*** The Romans didn't live in TheDungAges. Almost every character in ''Gladiator'' was underdressed and far too filthy to be realistic -- even the slaves should have been spotlessly clean and neatly dressed.
*** Neither extreme is remotely realistic. Yes, the nobility had very good hygiene and fancy clothes in the period, but the common folk and the slaves were much less well off. When you work all day in the hot sun, you're going to look like it, and bathing every day was just too expensive for most outside the population centers where free public baths were open for all except slaves.
* Can't forget ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''; Lucilla and Commodus's clothes (not to mention where they live) seem a bit too nice for TheDungAges.
** If anything, Commodus's clothing was too understated and rough. He should have looked like an overblown UsefulNotes/LouisXIV.
*** The Romans didn't live in TheDungAges. Almost every character in ''Gladiator'' was underdressed and far too filthy to be realistic -- even the slaves should have been spotlessly clean and neatly dressed.
*** Neither extreme is remotely realistic. Yes, the nobility had very good hygiene and fancy clothes in the period, but the common folk and the slaves were much less well off. When you work all day in the hot sun, you're going to look like it, and bathing every day was just too expensive for most outside the population centers where free public baths were open for all except slaves.
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* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Since the movies revolve around pirates, there isn't much of this flavor, but if you pay attention, the movies include a surprisingly great amount of PimpedOutDress. Elizabeth is guilty of this in the first two movies, before she TookALevelInBadass. And while we're on the subject, Norrington's uniform got pimped when he got promoted to admiral between the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] movies.
** A bit more of this in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], which includes some scenes of British and Spanish court officials and dress-uniformed officers.
* The 1947 René Clair movie ''Le silence est d'or'' (''Man About Town''), starring Creator/MauriceChevalier, featured late-Victorian-era Gorgeous Period Dress designed by no less a luminary than Christian Dior himself (his New Look, in fact, was in no small part derived from the sumptuous elegance of late Victorian and Edwardian fashion).
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Since the movies revolve around pirates, there isn't much of this flavor, but if you pay attention, the movies include a surprisingly great amount of PimpedOutDress. Elizabeth is guilty of this in the first two movies, before she TookALevelInBadass. And while we're on the subject, Norrington's uniform got pimped when he got promoted to admiral between the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] movies.
** A bit more of this in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], which includes some scenes of British and Spanish court officials and dress-uniformed officers.
* The 1947 René Clair movie ''Le silence est d'or'' (''Man About Town''), starring Creator/MauriceChevalier, featured late-Victorian-era Gorgeous Period Dress designed by no less a luminary than Christian Dior himself (his New Look, in fact, was in no small part derived from the sumptuous elegance of late Victorian and Edwardian fashion).
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* Japanese film ''Film/GateOfHell'' is a prototypical Technicolor example from TheFifties. Lots of ornate 12th-century costumes. Won an Oscar for costume design.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Since the movies revolve around pirates, there isn't much of this flavor, but if you pay attention, the movies include a surprisingly great amount of PimpedOutDress. Elizabeth is guilty of this in the first two movies, before she TookALevelInBadass. And while we're on the subject, Norrington's uniform got pimped when he got promoted to admiral between the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] movies.
** A bit more of this in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], which includes some scenes of British and Spanish court officials and dress-uniformed officers.
* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', also released in 1939, is in some places a validation, in others an aversion of this trope; Scarlett dresses sumptuously in many scenes (the famous green dress she made from lace curtains, or the equally famous scarlet gown) but very much in a down-at-the-heels manner in the postwar scenes where she's struggling to save Tara.
* ''Lots'' in the 1998 movie ''Film/EverAfter''.
* The 1935 film ''Film/BeckySharp'', an adaptation of Thackeray's ''Literature/VanityFair'' and the first-ever full-colour film, popularised this trope.
* However, it can be dated back even further to 1920s silent films that use the rather odd-looking two-colour red and green Technicolor. One such film is ''Phantom of the Opera'', which uses colourful costuming in a big ballroom scene.
** Subverted in TheMovie of TheMusical which had all the costume ball dancers in black and white, rendering lyrics like "Splash of puce/Flash of red" completely moot. Actually, going by the "colorful" criteria, only the Diva wears anything wildly colorful and it's mostly pink anyway.
* Many of the early [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney films]], such as the ball in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. [[Film/Cinderella2015 The live-action remake]] had colors so vibrant that, for example, Cinderella's dress had to be edited in post to be ''that blue'' in the lighting of the movie.
** And now sort of done with the Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es themselves, on some of their [[PimpedOutDress fancier-themed merchandise]].
* American cinema of the 1950s, fearful of losing customers to television, turned to spectacle to bring audiences back. TheFifties and TheSixties were the peak period for widescreen epic films with eye-searing Technicolor, and naturally, amazing dresses featured prominently: ''Ben Hur'', ''The Ten Commandments'', ''Desiree'', ''The Robe'', ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'', and many more.
* The 1947 René Clair movie ''Le silence est d'or'' (''Man About Town''), starring Creator/MauriceChevalier, featured late-Victorian-era Gorgeous Period Dress designed by no less a luminary than Christian Dior himself (his New Look, in fact, was in no small part derived from the sumptuous elegance of late Victorian and Edwardian fashion).
** ''Gigi'', also starring Chevalier and Leslie Caron, is positively stuffed with Edwardian Gorgeous Period Dress.
* The 1943 movie ''[[Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen Münchhausen]]'', which was only the third full-length colour feature in the history of GermanFilms, indulges itself in this respect. It contains, among other things, a costumed ball on an 18th-century theme in the present-day framing scenes, a sumptuous state banquet at the court of UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, a large sequence at the Ottoman court in [[IstanbulNotConstantinople Constantinople]] and a carnival in Venice.
* The ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series is a {{Prequel}} to the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films that starts off in TheRoaringTwenties and will likely [[ForegoneConclusion end with Dumbledore's defeat of Grindlewald in 1945]]). Since ''Harry Potter'' took place in a school and the present day, its costumes were nothing too much to write home about. ''Fantastic Beasts'' has much more ornate costume design than its parent series. It's not just the main characters who were immaculately beautiful period dresses either, the background extras are a CastOfSnowflake who also all wear gorgeous clothes. The first film's Oscar for Best Costume Design was the entire franchise's first Oscar, nine movies in.
* Many Film/HammerHorror films.
** ''Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein'' and ''The Man Who Could Cheat Death'', starring legendary Film/HammerHorror redheaded beauty Creator/HazelCourt, are excellent examples.
* Bizarrely combined with TheDungAges in ''Film/FleshAndBlood''.
* Can't forget ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''; Lucilla and Commodus's clothes (not to mention where they live) seem a bit too nice for TheDungAges.
** If anything, Commodus's clothing was too understated and rough. He should have looked like an overblown UsefulNotes/LouisXIV.
*** The Romans didn't live in TheDungAges. Almost every character in ''Gladiator'' was underdressed and far too filthy to be realistic -- even the slaves should have been spotlessly clean and neatly dressed.
*** Neither extreme is remotely realistic. Yes, the nobility had very good hygiene and fancy clothes in the period, but the common folk and the slaves were much less well off. When you work all day in the hot sun, you're going to look like it, and bathing every day was just too expensive for most outside the population centers where free public baths were open for all except slaves.
%%* Creator/SofiaCoppola used this trope for ''Film/MarieAntoinette2006'' the film even includes a lengthy montage of the queen and her ladies shopping for dresses and shoes.
* Countless UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} period movies fall into this. This is particularly true if said movies feature Ms. Aishwaya Rai. [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm767989248/tt0449994 Every.]] [[http://www.planetbollywood.com/Pictures/Posters/UmraoJaan/UmraoJaan11P.jpg Single.]] [[http://www.parigones.net/IMG/jpg/cinema_devdas_p1.jpg Time.]]
** ''Devdas'' and ''Jodhaa Akbar'', especially. GUH.
* Pretty much every Creator/MerchantIvory film ever made.
* One of the most famous Creator/WilliamShakespeare film adaptations, ''Theatre/HenryV'', directed by Creator/KennethBranagh, was famous for taking the story and laying on the mud and gore real thick on the period costuming to show medieval war in all its filthiness.
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier's version of ''Theatre/HenryV'' is a straight-up example of this trope, though; it was the first color Shakespeare film, intended as a morale-booster during World War II, and the look is heavily modeled on fifteenth-century manuscripts.
** Creator/KennethBranagh's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', however, had everyone dressed in extremely elaborate and colourful 19th-century military uniforms or billowy ball gowns. Most of it was a way to keep the audience's attention for the ([[Series/BlackAdder endless, uncut!]]) 4-hour movie, but it also set up a sharp contrast with Hamlet, who spent most of the movie in a black outfit.
* The first-class passengers' clothes in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', contrasted with the third-class's filthier clothes and segregated areas on board the titular ship.
* ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheThreeStooges''
* Many a JidaiGeki film displays the Japanese equivalent (though there are usually some, especially townspeople, wearing everyday clothes as well).
* The 1939 Warner Brothers film ''Film/ThePrivateLivesOfElizabethAndEssex'' reveled in the opportunity to show the splendid court dress of [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Elizabeth I.]] (Creator/BetteDavis) in Technicolor.
* ''Film/MoulinRouge'' tries its very best to make your eyes bleed with colour… especially during the Can Can scene in the beginning of the film.
* The film version of Creator/VirginiaWoolf's ''Literature/OrlandoABiography'', starring Creator/TildaSwinton in very pretty clothes.
* ''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya'' is set in the Heian period and features the often so-elaborate-it's-ludicrous court garments and fashion of that time. Since Princess Kaguya is the protagonist, there's a particular focus on women's fashion: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%ABnihitoe the 12-layer robe]] that totally covers the feet and hands, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth_blackening#Japan blackening of teeth]], and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikimayu shaved and repainted eyebrows]].
* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' is this trope in spades. The colors practically strobe they're so brilliant and every character is burdened by layer upon layer of exquisite brocade.
* ''Film/PlunkettAndMacleane'' for the most part averts this showing a more realistic and gritty costume approach, especially with lower classes. However, it plays it straight during one scene during a huge ballroom [[DancesAndBalls dance]] among the ''very'' rich, fitting the trope nicely. It's pretty much a costume designer's wet dream.
* ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice2005'' is (sometimes) a subversion of this trope. In the big ballroom scene, Gorgeous Period Dress rules, but otherwise, the lead characters all dress relatively simply, if appropriately for reasonably well-to-do people (the Bennets) or wealthy (Darcy).
* All film (as well as TV) versions of ''Literature/AnnaKarenina'' make use of this trope.
* ''Film/ArseneLupin2004'' with Kristin Scott-Thomas, seeing that it's about a gentleman thief who moves in Belle Epoque high society, uses this trope extensively.
* The 2018 film ''Film/TheFavourite'' dresses its three female leads in lush early 18th Century costumes and surrounds them with a bevy of men in even more sumptuous dress. The characters played by Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, given they are taking on masculine political roles, sometimes dress in men's attire or women's attire that is styled to look masculine.
* The Creator/MartinScorsese version of ''Film/TheAgeOfInnocence'', starring Creator/MichellePfeiffer and Creator/WinonaRyder. In fact, virtually '''any''' movie or show based on a novel by Creator/HenryJames or Creator/EdithWharton (cf. ''Literature/ThePortraitOfALady'', ''The Europeans'', ''The House of Mirth'', ''The Buccaneers'', ''Literature/DaisyMiller'', etc.) is guaranteed to make ample use of this trope, seeing that both authors were writing about the upper classes of the late Victorian era.
* The 1997 animated film ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' makes ample use of this trope.
* ''Film/MyFairLady''.
* ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' and the sequel ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age''.
* ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''.
* ''Film/TheDuellists''.
* The characters in 1963's ''Film/{{The Raven|1963}}'' wear somewhat lavish garments that all seem to be from different periods and regions.
* All over the place in the Renaissance setting of ''Film/LaReineMargot''.
* In ''''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|2014}}'''', while the story takes place in the early 19th century -- complete with empire line gowns and enormous bonnets -- the Beast's castle is essentially in a time bubble, meaning Belle gets to wear a lot of beautiful dresses from bygone eras, complete with tightly laced bodices and voluminous skirts.
* Love it or hate it, ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' had awesome costumes.
* Creator/DeborahKerr was heavily typecast in {{Costume Drama}}s, so many of her initial roles in Hollywood feature her in this:
** In ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', Anna's stunning pink silk ballgown. However her gloves are quite wrong for the time period - hand waved by RuleOfGlamorous.
** ''Film/BlackNarcissus'' has a flashback to her upbringing in Ireland, where she dons a PimpedOutDress for an evening with her boyfriend - and she's presented with some emerald earrings and a necklace too.
** ''Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda'' sees her playing a Princess Flavia, who is seen attending a coronation and several DancesAndBalls - requiring many different fancy dresses for each. She at least subverts the ErmineCapeEffect by dressing a little more simply when she's alone with Rudolf.
** ''Film/KingSolomonsMines'' has her wearing quite a fancy Victorian gown at the beginning. But since it's not practical for the African jungle, that's all you get.
** ''Film/YoungBess'' features the most elaborate of Tudor era finery, as she plays the Queen consort UsefulNotes/CatherineParr. One of her dresses is a recreation of a gown Catherine wears in the famous portrait that was mistaken for Lady Jane Grey. ''Kitty Hollywood'' in her review stated that [[JustHereForGodzilla the costumes themselves were enough of a reason to watch the film]].
** ''Film/TeaAndSympathy'' is set in 1947 and gives her a scene where she's wearing a splendid green evening gown in preparation for a school dance she [[RuleOfGlamorous never ends up attending]].
** ''Film/TheInnocents'' at first shows her in grand crinoline dresses with HighClassGloves that are perhaps [[RuleOfGlamorous a little too elegant for a working-class governess to afford]]. As the film goes on, her clothes become more muted to reflect her deteriorating sanity. By the final scene, she's in a plain black dress.
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' won an Oscar for its costumes, showcasing some splendid 1890s Victorian fashion. Most of Lucy Westenra's wardrobe is rich and elaborate. There is some HollywoodCostuming involved however since Lucy's neckline is a little too low. Mina's bustle dress is not as lavish and it's a few decades out of style, but used to show that a poor schoolmistress can't afford the latest fashions.
* In ''Film/AStudyInTerror'', all of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's victims are dressed in outfits that are far too elegant (and clean) for a real East End prostitute.
* ''Film/ShadowsOfForgottenAncestors'': The film features a feast of traditional [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutsuls Hutsul]] folk costumes. Various festivals, weddings, and funerals put their ceremonial garb on display, with rich furs and elaborate colors.
* ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' has Edith in some stunning turn of the century dresses, and even her nightgown looks sumptuous. When it comes to the Sharpes, their clothes are nice but at least twenty years out of date - which is used to show they are {{Impoverished Patrician}}s. It's implied they're that broke they wear their parents' old clothes.
* ''Film/DarlingLili'' puts the titular Lili in many fancy ball gowns and formal wear from 1918, befitting of a FemmeFataleSpy. She seems to have a new splendid outfit in each scene.
* ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' uses this to show off how wealthy Sara Crewe is. She arrives at the school wearing a splendid white coat and hat, and even the school uniform is quite elegant. Then when she loses all her wealth, she's reduced to wearing a simple black dress as she works as a servant.
* ''Film/SherlockCaseOfEvil'' includes several scenes set at high society balls seemingly for no other reason to allow both women and men (including a fine looking Franchise/SherlockHolmes played by Creator/JamesDArcy) to be seen in magnificent period outfits.
* ''Film/{{Onmyoji}}'' is set in the Heian period, and accordingly, most of the female characters are seen in many layers of robes in different colors, though the men tend to be more drably dressed. However, the standouts are Seimei and his shikigami like Mitsumushi, who are always wearing beautiful, brightly colored clothes.
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* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Since the movies revolve around pirates, there isn't much of this flavor, but if you pay attention, the movies include a surprisingly great amount of PimpedOutDress. Elizabeth is guilty of this in the first two movies, before she TookALevelInBadass. And while we're on the subject, Norrington's uniform got pimped when he got promoted to admiral between the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] movies.
** A bit more of this in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], which includes some scenes of British and Spanish court officials and dress-uniformed officers.
* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', also released in 1939, is in some places a validation, in others an aversion of this trope; Scarlett dresses sumptuously in many scenes (the famous green dress she made from lace curtains, or the equally famous scarlet gown) but very much in a down-at-the-heels manner in the postwar scenes where she's struggling to save Tara.
* ''Lots'' in the 1998 movie ''Film/EverAfter''.
* The 1935 film ''Film/BeckySharp'', an adaptation of Thackeray's ''Literature/VanityFair'' and the first-ever full-colour film, popularised this trope.
* However, it can be dated back even further to 1920s silent films that use the rather odd-looking two-colour red and green Technicolor. One such film is ''Phantom of the Opera'', which uses colourful costuming in a big ballroom scene.
** Subverted in TheMovie of TheMusical which had all the costume ball dancers in black and white, rendering lyrics like "Splash of puce/Flash of red" completely moot. Actually, going by the "colorful" criteria, only the Diva wears anything wildly colorful and it's mostly pink anyway.
* Many of the early [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney films]], such as the ball in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. [[Film/Cinderella2015 The live-action remake]] had colors so vibrant that, for example, Cinderella's dress had to be edited in post to be ''that blue'' in the lighting of the movie.
** And now sort of done with the Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es themselves, on some of their [[PimpedOutDress fancier-themed merchandise]].
* American cinema of the 1950s, fearful of losing customers to television, turned to spectacle to bring audiences back. TheFifties and TheSixties were the peak period for widescreen epic films with eye-searing Technicolor, and naturally, amazing dresses featured prominently: ''Ben Hur'', ''The Ten Commandments'', ''Desiree'', ''The Robe'', ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'', and many more.
* The 1947 René Clair movie ''Le silence est d'or'' (''Man About Town''), starring Creator/MauriceChevalier, featured late-Victorian-era Gorgeous Period Dress designed by no less a luminary than Christian Dior himself (his New Look, in fact, was in no small part derived from the sumptuous elegance of late Victorian and Edwardian fashion).
** ''Gigi'', also starring Chevalier and Leslie Caron, is positively stuffed with Edwardian Gorgeous Period Dress.
* The 1943 movie ''[[Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen Münchhausen]]'', which was only the third full-length colour feature in the history of GermanFilms, indulges itself in this respect. It contains, among other things, a costumed ball on an 18th-century theme in the present-day framing scenes, a sumptuous state banquet at the court of UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, a large sequence at the Ottoman court in [[IstanbulNotConstantinople Constantinople]] and a carnival in Venice.
* The ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series is a {{Prequel}} to the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films that starts off in TheRoaringTwenties and will likely [[ForegoneConclusion end with Dumbledore's defeat of Grindlewald in 1945]]). Since ''Harry Potter'' took place in a school and the present day, its costumes were nothing too much to write home about. ''Fantastic Beasts'' has much more ornate costume design than its parent series. It's not just the main characters who were immaculately beautiful period dresses either, the background extras are a CastOfSnowflake who also all wear gorgeous clothes. The first film's Oscar for Best Costume Design was the entire franchise's first Oscar, nine movies in.
* Many Film/HammerHorror films.
** ''Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein'' and ''The Man Who Could Cheat Death'', starring legendary Film/HammerHorror redheaded beauty Creator/HazelCourt, are excellent examples.
* Bizarrely combined with TheDungAges in ''Film/FleshAndBlood''.
* Can't forget ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''; Lucilla and Commodus's clothes (not to mention where they live) seem a bit too nice for TheDungAges.
** If anything, Commodus's clothing was too understated and rough. He should have looked like an overblown UsefulNotes/LouisXIV.
*** The Romans didn't live in TheDungAges. Almost every character in ''Gladiator'' was underdressed and far too filthy to be realistic -- even the slaves should have been spotlessly clean and neatly dressed.
*** Neither extreme is remotely realistic. Yes, the nobility had very good hygiene and fancy clothes in the period, but the common folk and the slaves were much less well off. When you work all day in the hot sun, you're going to look like it, and bathing every day was just too expensive for most outside the population centers where free public baths were open for all except slaves.
%%* Creator/SofiaCoppola used this trope for ''Film/MarieAntoinette2006'' the film even includes a lengthy montage of the queen and her ladies shopping for dresses and shoes.
* Countless UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} period movies fall into this. This is particularly true if said movies feature Ms. Aishwaya Rai. [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm767989248/tt0449994 Every.]] [[http://www.planetbollywood.com/Pictures/Posters/UmraoJaan/UmraoJaan11P.jpg Single.]] [[http://www.parigones.net/IMG/jpg/cinema_devdas_p1.jpg Time.]]
** ''Devdas'' and ''Jodhaa Akbar'', especially. GUH.
* Pretty much every Creator/MerchantIvory film ever made.
* One of the most famous Creator/WilliamShakespeare film adaptations, ''Theatre/HenryV'', directed by Creator/KennethBranagh, was famous for taking the story and laying on the mud and gore real thick on the period costuming to show medieval war in all its filthiness.
** Creator/LaurenceOlivier's version of ''Theatre/HenryV'' is a straight-up example of this trope, though; it was the first color Shakespeare film, intended as a morale-booster during World War II, and the look is heavily modeled on fifteenth-century manuscripts.
** Creator/KennethBranagh's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', however, had everyone dressed in extremely elaborate and colourful 19th-century military uniforms or billowy ball gowns. Most of it was a way to keep the audience's attention for the ([[Series/BlackAdder endless, uncut!]]) 4-hour movie, but it also set up a sharp contrast with Hamlet, who spent most of the movie in a black outfit.
* The first-class passengers' clothes in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', contrasted with the third-class's filthier clothes and segregated areas on board the titular ship.
* ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheThreeStooges''
* Many a JidaiGeki film displays the Japanese equivalent (though there are usually some, especially townspeople, wearing everyday clothes as well).
* The 1939 Warner Brothers film ''Film/ThePrivateLivesOfElizabethAndEssex'' reveled in the opportunity to show the splendid court dress of [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI Elizabeth I.]] (Creator/BetteDavis) in Technicolor.
* ''Film/MoulinRouge'' tries its very best to make your eyes bleed with colour… especially during the Can Can scene in the beginning of the film.
* The film version of Creator/VirginiaWoolf's ''Literature/OrlandoABiography'', starring Creator/TildaSwinton in very pretty clothes.
* ''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya'' is set in the Heian period and features the often so-elaborate-it's-ludicrous court garments and fashion of that time. Since Princess Kaguya is the protagonist, there's a particular focus on women's fashion: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%ABnihitoe the 12-layer robe]] that totally covers the feet and hands, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth_blackening#Japan blackening of teeth]], and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikimayu shaved and repainted eyebrows]].
* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' is this trope in spades. The colors practically strobe they're so brilliant and every character is burdened by layer upon layer of exquisite brocade.
* ''Film/PlunkettAndMacleane'' for the most part averts this showing a more realistic and gritty costume approach, especially with lower classes. However, it plays it straight during one scene during a huge ballroom [[DancesAndBalls dance]] among the ''very'' rich, fitting the trope nicely. It's pretty much a costume designer's wet dream.
* ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice2005'' is (sometimes) a subversion of this trope. In the big ballroom scene, Gorgeous Period Dress rules, but otherwise, the lead characters all dress relatively simply, if appropriately for reasonably well-to-do people (the Bennets) or wealthy (Darcy).
* All film (as well as TV) versions of ''Literature/AnnaKarenina'' make use of this trope.
* ''Film/ArseneLupin2004'' with Kristin Scott-Thomas, seeing that it's about a gentleman thief who moves in Belle Epoque high society, uses this trope extensively.
* The 2018 film ''Film/TheFavourite'' dresses its three female leads in lush early 18th Century costumes and surrounds them with a bevy of men in even more sumptuous dress. The characters played by Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, given they are taking on masculine political roles, sometimes dress in men's attire or women's attire that is styled to look masculine.
* The Creator/MartinScorsese version of ''Film/TheAgeOfInnocence'', starring Creator/MichellePfeiffer and Creator/WinonaRyder. In fact, virtually '''any''' movie or show based on a novel by Creator/HenryJames or Creator/EdithWharton (cf. ''Literature/ThePortraitOfALady'', ''The Europeans'', ''The House of Mirth'', ''The Buccaneers'', ''Literature/DaisyMiller'', etc.) is guaranteed to make ample use of this trope, seeing that both authors were writing about the upper classes of the late Victorian era.
* The 1997 animated film ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' makes ample use of this trope.
* ''Film/MyFairLady''.
* ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' and the sequel ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age''.
* ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''.
* ''Film/TheDuellists''.
* The characters in 1963's ''Film/{{The Raven|1963}}'' wear somewhat lavish garments that all seem to be from different periods and regions.
* All over the place in the Renaissance setting of ''Film/LaReineMargot''.
* In ''''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|2014}}'''', while the story takes place in the early 19th century -- complete with empire line gowns and enormous bonnets -- the Beast's castle is essentially in a time bubble, meaning Belle gets to wear a lot of beautiful dresses from bygone eras, complete with tightly laced bodices and voluminous skirts.
* Love it or hate it, ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' had awesome costumes.
* Creator/DeborahKerr was heavily typecast in {{Costume Drama}}s, so many of her initial roles in Hollywood feature her in this:
** In ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', Anna's stunning pink silk ballgown. However her gloves are quite wrong for the time period - hand waved by RuleOfGlamorous.
** ''Film/BlackNarcissus'' has a flashback to her upbringing in Ireland, where she dons a PimpedOutDress for an evening with her boyfriend - and she's presented with some emerald earrings and a necklace too.
** ''Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda'' sees her playing a Princess Flavia, who is seen attending a coronation and several DancesAndBalls - requiring many different fancy dresses for each. She at least subverts the ErmineCapeEffect by dressing a little more simply when she's alone with Rudolf.
** ''Film/KingSolomonsMines'' has her wearing quite a fancy Victorian gown at the beginning. But since it's not practical for the African jungle, that's all you get.
** ''Film/YoungBess'' features the most elaborate of Tudor era finery, as she plays the Queen consort UsefulNotes/CatherineParr. One of her dresses is a recreation of a gown Catherine wears in the famous portrait that was mistaken for Lady Jane Grey. ''Kitty Hollywood'' in her review stated that [[JustHereForGodzilla the costumes themselves were enough of a reason to watch the film]].
** ''Film/TeaAndSympathy'' is set in 1947 and gives her a scene where she's wearing a splendid green evening gown in preparation for a school dance she [[RuleOfGlamorous never ends up attending]].
** ''Film/TheInnocents'' at first shows her in grand crinoline dresses with HighClassGloves that are perhaps [[RuleOfGlamorous a little too elegant for a working-class governess to afford]]. As the film goes on, her clothes become more muted to reflect her deteriorating sanity. By the final scene, she's in a plain black dress.
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' won an Oscar for its costumes, showcasing some splendid 1890s Victorian fashion. Most of Lucy Westenra's wardrobe is rich and elaborate. There is some HollywoodCostuming involved however since Lucy's neckline is a little too low. Mina's bustle dress is not as lavish and it's a few decades out of style, but used to show that a poor schoolmistress can't afford the latest fashions.
* In ''Film/AStudyInTerror'', all of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's victims are dressed in outfits that are far too elegant (and clean) for a real East End prostitute.
* ''Film/ShadowsOfForgottenAncestors'': The film features a feast of traditional [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutsuls Hutsul]] folk costumes. Various festivals, weddings, and funerals put their ceremonial garb on display, with rich furs and elaborate colors.
* ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' has Edith in some stunning turn of the century dresses, and even her nightgown looks sumptuous. When it comes to the Sharpes, their clothes are nice but at least twenty years out of date - which is used to show they are {{Impoverished Patrician}}s. It's implied they're that broke they wear their parents' old clothes.
* ''Film/DarlingLili'' puts the titular Lili in many fancy ball gowns and formal wear from 1918, befitting of a FemmeFataleSpy. She seems to have a new splendid outfit in each scene.
* ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' uses this to show off how wealthy Sara Crewe is. She arrives at the school wearing a splendid white coat and hat, and even the school uniform is quite elegant. Then when she loses all her wealth, she's reduced to wearing a simple black dress as she works as a servant.
* ''Film/SherlockCaseOfEvil'' includes several scenes set at high society balls seemingly for no other reason to allow both women and men (including a fine looking Franchise/SherlockHolmes played by Creator/JamesDArcy) to be seen in magnificent period outfits.
* ''Film/{{Onmyoji}}'' is set in the Heian period, and accordingly, most of the female characters are seen in many layers of robes in different colors, though the men tend to be more drably dressed. However, the standouts are Seimei and his shikigami like Mitsumushi, who are always wearing beautiful, brightly colored clothes.
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