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- Designing 1883 has been quite the journey
and I was totally captured by the beautiful words
and character development that Taylor has created.
- If you look at the costumes,
we made them all, every dress, every jacket,
everything was custom made by Janie and her team.
- My most important goal is to be authentic
to these amazing characters.
I am very familiar with this period.
1883 is kind of in those years of the Victorian era.
- The level of authenticity that's brought to it
from a costumes perspective is through the roof.
It feels so good to get to put this on every day.
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- My initial approach in costume designing
for all of the characters really starts with the script.
It is information that I get that really helps me visually.
And then I'll start doing research.
- All of the pictures that she had put together
to really try and study culture.
Because again, you don't just have American Cowboys.
You have Czechoslovakians and you have Romanians,
and you have Russians, and you have Germans.
And she really did her research to piece together
everything to be custom made.
So it was really quite impressive.
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- One thing that Taylor and I talked a lot about
was let's have these wild characters and interesting colors
because red really does tip off that there will be blood,
there will be death, things are stirring up.
Let's just say that.
When Taylor and I were first talking,
one of the colors that he was really passionate about
for Elsa was blue.
- She just looks like hope and sincerity,
and that's what I needed from this character.
- The story begins with Elsa in this nice,
pretty blue dress that's quaint and restrictive.
And that's kind of where she is in her life at that time,
restricted from everything.
- The Polonaise was very popular during this time of 1883,
a lot of what influenced the Victorian era
was 1700's fashion.
She also has her traveling bonnet.
Taylor really wanted her to look at her most
put together point is when we meet her.
She really has this incredible journey of her
becoming a woman.
We see so many changes in her costume design.
She's really the character that we see change the most.
- She's never worn pants in her life
and she suddenly gets to ride a horse, not in a skirt,
which is very different experiences.
- For James Dutton, he was a farmer in Tennessee.
And so it was really important to make sure that aspect
of his character is in his costume design.
- Getting into costume certainly helps with being
in that space.
So I like to get on set early and just really walk around
and sorta just put yourself in that world.
- People in that period really did not travel
with that many clothes.
They didn't have that many clothes.
So, you know, his costume design
is very consistent throughout the show.
It's really about those minimal pieces.
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It's so important to be able to develop a character
through costume.
- I was fascinated by the costumes that were wearing
and it tells such a good story of my character.
- She's really bringing this world to life.
When she put this coat on me the first time I squealed.
- Janie Bryant and her whole team knocks it
out of the park.
- We're like a well oiled machine I have to say.
I feel so lucky that the team that I brought with me
from Los Angeles and also with my team from Texas,
we've just really gelled together so well,
it's been so nice.
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