The Costumes of Season 2

(bright music) - Costume is such a huge part of the show and the time.

Lauren Miller, our wonderful designer, brought in a lot more of a pastel kind of palette and brighter colors for this season, as Tom Parker's vision of the town is starting to come to life.

He's built up the promenade.

Everything's elevated and the costumes reflect that.

- Everyone's stories kind of changed, and adapted and moved on.

So it's about taking those characters kind of as we know them and developing them.

Maturing them in some instances, and then really working on kind of the new characters and developing their style.

(bright music) I really enjoyed making Charlotte into the governess 'cause it was just moving her slightly away from the kind of sweet, innocent Charlotte of season one, and making her into this kind of grown up lady who's working as a governess.

And so she has like a blue, sort of checked pinafore, that I just thought was really sweet.

And she wears it with a little shirt and I thought that was just a really nice kind of move along with like, this is Charlotte today.

- Lauren's really played with bold coloring and, and prints and mixing things up.

So you have like the same traditional like Regency cuts to things.

But there's a lot of playing with like textures on the fabric, and yellow and red on the soldier's jacket.

And everything like pops a lot on screen.

- I come in in the morning, 5:00 a.m., and I look a mess.

And then like, you come out of the, the magical work of the hair and makeup department and costume, and I'm in it.

I'm in my like corset, so already, like my posture is affected and I've got petticoats and stockings and gowns.

So just that affects how you are.

- Up until the Regency era, everything was quite low down.

It was all about like accentuating the waist.

And it was really confining for women, really painful as well.

And then during this period, 1820s onwards, they started rising.

And it was almost like, this like rebellion in women's fashion.

That was like, no, we don't wanna wear these really restraining, like tight whale bone corsets.

We wanna lift everything up and we wanna be comfortable.

I love that, 'cause that was like this like uprising in fashion.

It was great.

- Miss Heywood.

(bright music) - I've loved every outfit that I've worn and I think the guys get an easier ride.

It's not too restricting and they're always quite strong as a look you feel when you walk into a room.

Especially with the boots and the collars and the ruffles.

There's a, there's a vibe.

It's always a vibe.

- Esther, Lady Babington now, has got a bit more money this time.

So she, she can afford a bit more.

So she's got, you know, bigger jewels and her color palette is great.

I have one particular coat.

It's like a deep purple with a leather collar.

It's just like quite, quite sassy really.

- Charles Lockhart was a really interesting character.

When I first read the character, I was like it'd be really fun to play up someone that doesn't necessarily follow the rules all the time.

We first see him on the beach, he's wearing a sarong and it was really fun to play with those elements that you don't normally see in a Regency period drama.

- The detail and the actual vibrancy of the costumes just immediately drop you in that period.

They instantly change the way you move, which is kind of everything to an actor.