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That period costume may have appeared in a dozen films

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That gorgeous, bespoke Victorian dress you loved in a prestigious drama probably started its life three years ago in a terrible B-movie. High-quality historical garments are incredibly expensive to build from scratch, so rental houses continuously circulate the exact same corsets, armors, and cloaks across dozens of different productions, occasionally just swapping the buttons.

That period costume may have appeared in a dozen films
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