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I love this post so much!!! (and please, do continue with the costume analyses on your personal obsessions, if you ever do another - I find them so much more engaging and interesting than 'here are 3583920 things to buy and wear as a costume' posts that proliferate on fashion substack)

I haven't watched TSOM in at least a decade but seeing all the costumes in detail like this really gives me a new appreciation of how good it is and why it spent like 30 years across generations being the Christmas movie of choice (first for mum, then me).

re: Grandmere, I am still slightly regretful that the version in the Princess Diaries movie isn't the eccentric tattooed-eyeliner Sidecar-drinking snob I know and love from the books. Book Grandmere was so much more of a <i>character</i>- she was delightful, and while Julie Andrews is delightful by default as Nice Grandmere, it still feels like a missed opportunity.

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!!! TSOM is a childhood favourite of mine too (legit internally screeched when I heard the first notes of 7 Rings), it used to be the go-to Christmas movie in the 90s but I never paid attention to the costumes, this is so eye-opening in the best way. So much detail on all of this!

also I adore Julie Andrews, the only reason why I don't mind the nicening of onscreen Mary Poppins and Grandmere compared to how abrasive they could be in the books, is because they're played by her.

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