I noticed that also. It means to me that she takes the extra time to enter a transcription for TH-cam to use, rather than relying on the voice recognition captioning tool. Further evidence being the Old English that shows correctly in the captioning. The extra effort for her captioning plus her quick sketch/watercolor fashion plates leaves me starting to devolve into speechless fangirl and wishing I’d watched this sooner so I could bid on her eBay auction.
Cheriti Watts she’s also so satisfying. Like her voice is so calming. I hate asmr because it usually drives my ears crazy (because I have mesophonia which is sensitivity to specific sounds) BUT this is like asmr for me.
@@CheritiWatts I feel that, but also prints of them are available in her Etsy shop! I know it's not the same as having the original watercolour (the dream) but they're still there if you're interested!
Absolutely. As a French person, it's very helpful for me to be able to read the subs. I often find it difficult to understand spoken English but I am OK with written
I just need to point out that vampire dress is 250 dollars. At that point, you might as well just get an actual dress you can wear more than once a year.
@@crematedfelony When I was Grade 4 I wore a gothic Victorian styled dress for Halloween and I wore it a lot because it was pretty big and I thought it looked pretty. I even wore it on Christmas
@@SM-qv2om Now that's a job well done! I got a nice red evening style gown that I always wear to school- but it's pretty enough to be worn to weddings too :D So that's what I did.
I feel like she should go to a renaissance fair and set up a booth called “let an actual historian make you critique your costume for 10$ she would make a killing”
Okay. So, I worked the Northern California Ren Faire for over a decade and I can tell you that the people working there went to huge lengths to make their costumes as accurate as possible within their budgets. There were very strict rules, much research, and much agonizing about the width of striping on corduroy. LOL We even dyed fabric with period techniques (yellow onion skins make a great dye) and were careful about accessories (my glasses weren't period, so I switched to contacts at that time.) That said.The guests visiting the Faire were often wearing things that wouldn't have been found in ANY period of history EVER. Nor did we ever mock them for it. They tried. They took the time to buy or make a costume, so that they could have a good time at the Faire. They were there to have fun, while we were there to entertain and educate. If they enjoyed their day and learned something, we were happy. :)
If cocovid taught me anything it's that the youtube algorithm is no where near as good at showing you things that you want to watch as people think it is.
I'm currently having the same thought. I've been watching gaming content on TH-cam for almost 10 years now and even though I sow a lot it didn't occur to me that I could find sowing-channels here ❤
I laughed out loud when I read this because the same thing went through my head, as I was doing it decades ago, when I was in school. I thought I sounded more adult.
lol I used to do the same, once in music class 3rd or 4th grade me was like "Present 😌" and I felt all fancy and all the other kids were like 😱😱😱 "why did she say present???" and the teacher looked at me like 😒 "it's another way of saying here"
@@sweetnightmares1377 really? I know someone who thinks he sounds smart even though he is saying “president” instead of “present” I haven’t heard anyone do that since kindergarten and I kind of got annoyed bc he said shut up when I told him he said it wrong.....😒
@@melodramaticdragon5826 Tolkien used to sit at the very back of his classroom at the first class of the year, watch all the incoming freshmen look around uncertainly at the apparent lack of a teacher, and then stride down the aisle, reciting Beowulf fairly loudly. Man, I'd have loved to have him as a teacher. :)
@@wolfie1703 aw thanks :') i'm only like this in writing though, irl the words that go from my brain to mouth always go wonky somewhere in the middle and it turns into gibberish (also i dig your pfp!!)
Fun fact: scholars generally agree that the reason Elizabeth’s portraits are featured with pearls is because pearls were meant to represent chastity, purity, and as the Virgin Queen, the pearls helped reinforce that 😊 Elizabeth’s portraits in general tend to have a ton of symbolism in them
Cool! That is a fun fact... maybe she actually HATED pearls but had to put up with them in her portraits because symbolism 😂 and here we all are continually portraying her in pearls! I like to think she’s seething , spitting at us from somewhere....😁
Puh-lease find TV show Blackadder 2,,, esp, episode with Rik mayall ,, cos, uh, she knew alotta sailors ,,, Walter Raleigh,, etc it's pretty funny if you like historical-esque childish purile knob-jokes/ high-wit insults,, h-ha ha-ha ! The show's costumes almost bankrupted the BBC,, (myth?)
@@rowan9199 I would think that it would go more like: "I shall now demolish this gentleman's occupation." I edited the comment because of a few autocorrect errors I overlooked haha
Because we are already thought that she was a great one, I tend to appreciate and support people Silently. Which could prevent arguments and misunderstandings.
*"OG Elizabethans required ultimate puff; the entire sleeve just one massive puff", "The second, floaty, collar thing", "So good try 21st century, but we're going to need a much stronger ruffle game than that", "**#vampireaesthetic**", "... gothic vampire trash collar things", "Maximum floofage", "... maybe don't do that", "... and if not. Cool. Bye". - Bernadette Banner circa 2019.*
Corsetry came up in a random discord server and I outed myself very hard on being quote unquote knowledgable about it, a little, enough for them to sort of listen to me when I say no corsets doesn't have to be sexy garments, and yes people can work in them, and eeeeveryone wore them after a period of time and people asked why I knew this and I had to out myself on how much youtube I watch in a day ._________.
Me, a non-native English speaker: another historical video from that eloquent charming lady, what a delight! Bernadette: 1:58 Well... that escalated quickly.
Native English speaker. Yea, the average native English speaking person cannot understand a word of old English. In fact there is a misconception (edit: among native English speakers) that the language Shakespeare wrote with was old English, when in reality it is Early Modern English. The old English here kind of sounded Germanic to me, but that might be just me.
Native English speaker here: I had a professor once start speaking old English as if it was normal and honestly thought I was having a stroke because everyone was just nodding along 😂😂 turned out none of us knew what was happening but no one wanted to be the first to say anything. And that's how I learned what old English sounded like!
The more I watch her videos, the more I'm ashamed of my English. Tbh, even if it's not English, I cannot even be that intellectual in my own mother tongue 😂😅
@@Ghorda9 'As we can see back in the 21st century they decided to revive earlier styles with pigmentation uncharacteristic of the times, the primary sources coming from the lovely Lady Banner-'
I want her to tell me WHY my clothes suck exactly. I need a 2 pages essay on evey outfit I have ever made for a character and how bad it is, because they look terrible and underwhelming
@@DerMacko Stan comes from the Eminem song Stan, in which a fan (Stan) obsesses over Em to a rather terrifying degree. It ends with Stan killing himself and his pregnant girlfriend because he didn't get a personal response from Eminem. Thus, to "Stan" someone is to obsess over them to a potentially dangerous degree.
Not to be THAT person, but she definitely does not use old English, but rather old modern english... see old English is a nearly unrecognizable, and she only spoke a line in 'old English', though that is uncommon for her videos.....
“We are already banishing that hat to the deepest bits of hell, so let’s be rid of the parasol and call this evening wear.” How to be an education savage.
I once saw a witch costume labelled "Mediaeval Rennacaince Victorian Sexy". Possibly the worst historical costume sin in existence Edit: so I found another, someone on wish put up a robe a la francaise (I think I'm spelling that right) and labelled it 'medieval renaissance victorian' A robe a la fraincaise.. From the 1700's.. In the roccoco period.. Why??
When you talked about the Southern Belle costume and the differences between day wear and evening wear, I got flashbacks of 'Gone with the Wind' when Mammy berates Scarlett for wanting to wear a low-cut dress to the barbecue - "You can't show your bosom before 3 o'clock!"
I thought the same thing! I just LIVE for the many sections of the book where clothing is discussed! Some of it is just fun to imagine, like the trendy new outfit that the formerly-trashy Emmie Slattery wears, when she and her overseer baby-daddy visit and threaten to buy Tara. Yet many other parts describing clothing are very important in the story and show just how stifling and awful some of the norms and values were back then! Married women could only wear subdued colors like "tacky greys, tans, doves and lilacs" (as Scarlett refers to them, LOL), and widows like Scarlett were expected to remain in hot, head to toe black for life - and your black veil had to be ankle length for the first three years you were a widow! Jewelry was also forbidden, unless it was "made from the hair of the deceased", along with ever displaying overt happiness in public! Really makes me appreciate Rhett Butler more, as he purposely helped Scarlett shake off the confines of her widowhood, by bidding to dance with her at the auction, and by tempting her with that beautiful, green hat from Paris. Great. Now I want to re-read it again, for the twentieth time!
@@rachelectroDC-84 plenty of married women wore other colors than those listed, though they did usually opt for less attention grabbing ones. And mourning didn't have to last a woman's whole life after her husband died. Two to three years was a socially acceptable period and there were several stages of it to go through, from the initial phase where a woman had to wear the ankle length veil and no jewelry, matte fabrics in all black, to the second stage of all black (some gray acceptable), a shorter veil (hip length was common), fabrics that had some shine, to the end stage where it was a very short veil, and fabrics in colors such as mauve, grays, and deep purples were acceptable. Some women stayed in mourning their whole lives for a lost husband or child, but plenty of them moved on as well, especially if she remarried or had other children to care for.
People do not realize that the time period with the "hottest" outfits was actually the Paleolithic. And hunter-gatherer societies in later periods. Lots and lots of bare skin if the climate was warm
I am 100% positive that you could find a (and I absolutely despise the fact that I'm going to type this out) "sexy cavewoman" costume somewhere in the hellish depths of Halloween costume markets.
I can't tell you how much my academic heart sings at the prospect of numbered footnotes and actual references in an otherwise highly entertaining youtube video.
English is my first language and I heard the dial up sound quite clearly while I tried to determine if she'd just slipped into like Flemish or Dutch hoping we wouldn't comment on it.
Bernadette: speaks Old English Me, a non-native Linguistics major: squeals in delight ... Also, if not for the plague that will not be named, I would have learned how to speak Old English semi-fluently by now...
Middle English is fairly easy to read and understand because it's primarily a series of standardized spelling and grammar changes that occurred during the transition to Modern English. For example, using the letter y where we now use i or having an extra -e on the ends of words. Once you begin to recognize the patterns, it's not difficult and you can fly through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in an afternoon. Old English, however, is practically an entirely different language. It looks and sounds a lot more Germanic than the English we speak now. I actually thought Bernadette was speaking German for a quick second until I realized what she was doing, that clever minx 😂
@@d.lan3y how are they more practical? The only words any of you ever bring to the not very round table is vibe, aesthetic, and the over-usage of saying literally as though it's some destined form of exaggeration. You think the cliches people make you into aren't so, but then everything matches up immediately.
Bernadette: Speaks extremely properly for eighteen minutes straight, and casually throws shade in Arthurian English. Also Bernadette: "...and pinned securely to the cap-thing..."
I hand sewed a dress from the 1620s that was supposed to be accurate but was mashed together with anything I could find lol so my costume only looked accurate
I really would love to see historically accurate fairy tale dresses, like Cinderella, beauty and the beast, that kind of stuff. With your drawings alongside as well!! They’re absolutely gorgeous and watching you paint them was so calming and relaxing!
Jordyn Marie just know something... the Disney Cinderella was based on Grimms’ Ashenputtel, which in turn was based on a Chinese tale from the 900s. OR, there’s an even older Greek version. So... be ready for slightly nightmarish things showing up
SonsOfLorgar only if you consider foot binding and willful mutilation of feet to be horrifying. But feet are rather unnerving to begin with. Who needs that many bones in one small appendage? Apparently... humans do
There’s a video on BuzzFeed about historically accurate Disney princesses, and it was directed by Eugene Lee Yang. It gives an accurate representation on what they should’ve worn, and it also gives background information on the people living during those times !!
Bernadette: *expertly covers multiple historical periods of dress* Me: Yup, yup, that, yup. *while knitting a hoodie for my cat* I just need to buckle down a knit some historically accurate patterns one of these days. Even if a woman knitting is borderline heresy prior to the invention of the knitting machine (16th century?).
They were also just immensely practical! Whoever has time to do anything but tie their hair in a bun every morning whilst kids scream their heads off to be fed? I can't remember the last time I washed my hair, and I only have one child 😭
Yes she is. She is correcting the modern costume-wearer on the proper manner of dress, while at the same time telling them how ignorant and crass they are.
Maybe with Bernadette around men would endeavor to be gentlemen. Considering that one of our esteemed representatives called a female colleague an F-ing B on the steps of our capitol building. Then there was the whole insurrection thing.
I read that as “Politically triggered” instead of “politely triggered”. Which gave me two laughing fits instead of one and I appreciate your comment greatly
Kelleymarie Jones this was just for entertainment and it’s much easier that reading an entire book. What are you doing here if we are all ‘bloody TH-cam worshipers’ and you’re also on TH-cam
Oh man, this was a solid video. When you spoke Old English, you got me right in the historical feels. 😂 I practically swooned. 😂👍 I know that the problem with copyright was annoying with the images but truthfully I loved watching you draw out the historical corrections to the costumes while explaining why it was right. I understand that this is not a format that is probably sustainable for every video, but I loved it and hope you make more. I absolutely love how reasoned everything was. Thanks for sharing and I would totally buy one of your eBay drawings if I wasn’t so cash poor.
Ne man: Eall ne man: Bernadette: Slieht an Eald Englisc. (No-one: Absolutely no-one: Bernadette: Slays in Old English) (Look, I know it's wrong, I tried. But we cannot all have the historical game on lock.)
Bernadette : I talk about historical costumes and accurate historical représentations, I love long constructed phrases and I have an extended and extremely detailed vocabulary of the stuff I know and talk about. also Bernadette : 14:01 "maximum floofage"
I *really* enjoyed this. I suppose you could write an entire book about the inaccuracies with halloween costumes. How did you select the ones you decided to critique?
@@thesnowflakediaries5267 Yes! I fully support book recommendations! Perhaps you could also suggest which Janet Arnold book would be best for someone who wants to #historybound on a more regular basis?
@@MJkatzTheWriter This may go on a "Things to play when I'm having a Bad Day" list. I have known too many LARPers, and now the cosplayers have filled any gaps that remained. (ignoring the 'Lolly' crowd. y'all are cool, just ... I've got my hands full.)
I have no idea why you would entertain the notion that I have stolen your 75” television! This is only my skirt! I don’t feel well is all. I’m just going to go home.
How fortuitous that this aired in the midst of my endeavor to curate a costume for myself on the theme of “mysterious peasant woman gathering questionable herbs from the woods during no particular era.” I now have greater knowledge that will help my final look be even more vague! Alas, I have limited options in the way of sewing materials where I live and am waiting on a delivery of fabric dye. Thank you for the summary of eras outside my field of knowledge!
Damn......now I’m dying to see the polyester “sexy” version of mysterious peasant woman gathering questionable herbs from the woods during no particular era. Love it,
I don't know why this was in my suggestions, but now I can say that I've never listened so long to someone speaking so interestingly about fashion. Respect to you.
As a young man loving classical, historical and vintage fashion.. I’m in love with her. As a lover of linguistics and languages, when Bernadette started to speak in historical English, I love her even more...if it’s possible :-D.
"...bidding starts at $1" me: oh honey...*looks at ebay listings and sees that all are nearly above $80 - one is at nearly $200* Yeah...Bernadette...you underestimate how much we love your artwork :)
She’s so articulate that the captions actually say what she’s saying
I noticed that also. It means to me that she takes the extra time to enter a transcription for TH-cam to use, rather than relying on the voice recognition captioning tool. Further evidence being the Old English that shows correctly in the captioning. The extra effort for her captioning plus her quick sketch/watercolor fashion plates leaves me starting to devolve into speechless fangirl and wishing I’d watched this sooner so I could bid on her eBay auction.
Cheriti Watts she’s also so satisfying. Like her voice is so calming. I hate asmr because it usually drives my ears crazy (because I have mesophonia which is sensitivity to specific sounds) BUT this is like asmr for me.
@@CheritiWatts I feel that, but also prints of them are available in her Etsy shop! I know it's not the same as having the original watercolour (the dream) but they're still there if you're interested!
Absolutely. As a French person, it's very helpful for me to be able to read the subs. I often find it difficult to understand spoken English but I am OK with written
@@sarahmcdonald4787I'm actually just considering to play her videos in the background while I work... for the ASMR effect... 🤔
"OG Elizabetheans required ultimate puff." A marvellous phrase.
That and "...with more bows for maximum floofage."
... I heart her so much... 😍😊
I agree.
Right! It was my favorite line of this whole video.
I nearly ate an OG Elizabethan because I thought it was a cream puff.
Truly
Theory: She is actually 550 years old and lived through all these times.
Ha ha ha! IKR?
Su Yegit i would believe it
WITCH!!! VAMPIRE!!!
She's absolutely an immortal
Benjamin Shepherd your accent can and will most likely change based on where you live, she switches between NYC and England
I just need to point out that vampire dress is 250 dollars. At that point, you might as well just get an actual dress you can wear more than once a year.
Glances at wedding dresses...
only cowards don't wear hallowe'en costumes more than once a year.
@Ishita Sharma i'm happy to entertain :)
@@crematedfelony When I was Grade 4 I wore a gothic Victorian styled dress for Halloween and I wore it a lot because it was pretty big and I thought it looked pretty. I even wore it on Christmas
@@SM-qv2om Now that's a job well done! I got a nice red evening style gown that I always wear to school- but it's pretty enough to be worn to weddings too :D So that's what I did.
I feel like she should go to a renaissance fair and set up a booth called “let an actual historian make you critique your costume for 10$ she would make a killing”
Han 68000 except many reenactors do research and try to be period accurate
nachtegael W have you seen half their costumes, they look more lord of the rings rather than accurate renaissance but it’s cool I guess
@@nachtegaelw5389 renaissance fairs, for the most part, are theater, not reenactors.
Okay. So, I worked the Northern California Ren Faire for over a decade and I can tell you that the people working there went to huge lengths to make their costumes as accurate as possible within their budgets. There were very strict rules, much research, and much agonizing about the width of striping on corduroy. LOL We even dyed fabric with period techniques (yellow onion skins make a great dye) and were careful about accessories (my glasses weren't period, so I switched to contacts at that time.) That said.The guests visiting the Faire were often wearing things that wouldn't have been found in ANY period of history EVER. Nor did we ever mock them for it. They tried. They took the time to buy or make a costume, so that they could have a good time at the Faire. They were there to have fun, while we were there to entertain and educate. If they enjoyed their day and learned something, we were happy. :)
@@eshbena I appreciate your welcoming attitude. Everyone has to start somewhere!
“No side ponytails i’m afraid” might be the best historical costumer mean-girl-esque burn ive ever heard. And im here for it
Who is this woman, why has she appeared in my recommendations, and why did she not arrive there much, much sooner.
why can't I like this more than once???
Shes not the hero we asked for but she is the hero we need
I'm wondering the same!
If cocovid taught me anything it's that the youtube algorithm is no where near as good at showing you things that you want to watch as people think it is.
I'm currently having the same thought. I've been watching gaming content on TH-cam for almost 10 years now and even though I sow a lot it didn't occur to me that I could find sowing-channels here ❤
The way Bernadette talks is how I think I sound when I say “present” instead of “here” when the teacher does attendance
I laughed out loud when I read this because the same thing went through my head, as I was doing it decades ago, when I was in school. I thought I sounded more adult.
lol I used to do the same, once in music class 3rd or 4th grade me was like "Present 😌" and I felt all fancy and all the other kids were like 😱😱😱 "why did she say present???" and the teacher looked at me like 😒 "it's another way of saying here"
We actually say 'Present' during attendance. I meant, everyone. Never heard someone say 'here' during attendance. :D
Lol 😂
@@sweetnightmares1377 really? I know someone who thinks he sounds smart even though he is saying “president” instead of “present” I haven’t heard anyone do that since kindergarten and I kind of got annoyed bc he said shut up when I told him he said it wrong.....😒
Ok I was already pretty convinced she’s immortal, but speaking Arthurian English just put the last nail in the coffin
how did she even learn to speak that? I want to!!!
@@lichofthewoods1132 Probably took a class in college, I imagine. There's another TH-camr I've heard of that speaks Old Norse.
@@melodramaticdragon5826 that's AWESOME
@@melodramaticdragon5826 Tolkien used to sit at the very back of his classroom at the first class of the year, watch all the incoming freshmen look around uncertainly at the apparent lack of a teacher, and then stride down the aisle, reciting Beowulf fairly loudly. Man, I'd have loved to have him as a teacher. :)
Arthur, if he existed, would spoken Welsh, not English.
if i had her vocabulary and eloquence i would literally never shut up
Angeline honestly same 😂
It appears you do, considering you used the word "eloquence." It may be the fact that it's a big word though.
@@wolfie1703 aw thanks :') i'm only like this in writing though, irl the words that go from my brain to mouth always go wonky somewhere in the middle and it turns into gibberish (also i dig your pfp!!)
Angeline Haha thank you!
Yah ive normaly been a bit more formal in speech but I've been watching her so much my language has taken a bit more elegance.
I am not interested in fashion at all.
*BUT THIS IS INTERESTING.*
you and me both Venny Potato
Ditto!
You are now interested in vintage fashion.
Same.
Bam! 1k’d ya.
Fun fact: scholars generally agree that the reason Elizabeth’s portraits are featured with pearls is because pearls were meant to represent chastity, purity, and as the Virgin Queen, the pearls helped reinforce that 😊 Elizabeth’s portraits in general tend to have a ton of symbolism in them
Cool! That is a fun fact... maybe she actually HATED pearls but had to put up with them in her portraits because symbolism 😂 and here we all are continually portraying her in pearls!
I like to think she’s seething , spitting at us from somewhere....😁
Puh-lease find TV show Blackadder 2,,, esp, episode with Rik mayall ,, cos, uh, she knew alotta sailors ,,, Walter Raleigh,, etc it's pretty funny if you like historical-esque childish purile knob-jokes/ high-wit insults,, h-ha ha-ha ! The show's costumes almost bankrupted the BBC,, (myth?)
@@harrymarshall are you okay?
@@anderkid1090 hi yes, you ?
@@harrymarshall what demon possessed you, Sir Marshall? Speak to us and we shall expel it from your vessel!
Party city: these costumes look good guys!
Bernadette banner: I’m gonna ruin this whole mans career
😂 😂 😂
Birb Floof pretty much 😂
It would more likely be
"I am going to completely ruin these humans careers. " 😅
This got a lot more likes than I thought it would
@@rowan9199 I would think that it would go more like: "I shall now demolish this gentleman's occupation."
I edited the comment because of a few autocorrect errors I overlooked haha
"The goal is to display a copious display of legs"
I've never heard a more regal diss to party city!
2k likes and no replies? Wow, never seen that before.
lock heart : Mainly boob...but leg too.
@@WoodlouseFairy I-
Do you mean in public or-?
Bernadette: "The entire sleeve just one massive puff"
Anne (of green gables): *faints*
yesssss
Ahh you right you right
Yessssssss
YISSSSSS
Where is the fandom at
How is nobody talking about what an amazing artist she is
I was thinking that the whole video lmao
What are you doing here peggy?!
WHY CANT I ESCAPE HAMILTON
*sighs* young women are SO accomplished!
Because we are already thought that she was a great one, I tend to appreciate and support people Silently. Which could prevent arguments and misunderstandings.
Did someone notice that her watercolor drawings are so light and pretty
Joana Šimkutė oh I love them! If I saw this video sooner, I would’ve bought one on eBay!
@@carolinegcooke she has them on her red bubble!
The title implies she's been correcting people for 500 years.
maybe she has been
you think her choosing a vampire costume to speak about is a coincidence? smh
Because she has been!
yeah i'm definitely convinced she's immortal
Does it imply or does it just state 😉
*"OG Elizabethans required ultimate puff; the entire sleeve just one massive puff", "The second, floaty, collar thing", "So good try 21st century, but we're going to need a much stronger ruffle game than that", "**#vampireaesthetic**", "... gothic vampire trash collar things", "Maximum floofage", "... maybe don't do that", "... and if not. Cool. Bye". - Bernadette Banner circa 2019.*
S H I’m not sure she realizes how iconically quotable she is! Such an aural delight 😄
I love the way she melds Victorian locution with modern slang. It's like listening to a time traveler who *almost* has it
S H only 1 thumbs up to give, mores the pity... you hit all the highlights!
Sounds like a lolita
I aspire to be "Gothic Vampire Trash" whenever possible (which isn't often in polite society).
What I love and admire about her is that she literally throws shade or insults in cursive... It's amazing and a song to the ears
My mother had that ability, and people would thank her! Sadly I have always been blunt, though I do endeavor not to be rude.
I've never heard the term of throwing shade in cursive but it's so descriptive and sounds very cool!
This is what happens when you ask that quiet youth group girl what she's into
CJ Shaw How dare you I feel so called out
this somehow stings in a weird way, because it's not saying anything bad, it just feels reeeeeeally personal lmao
Corsetry came up in a random discord server and I outed myself very hard on being quote unquote knowledgable about it, a little, enough for them to sort of listen to me when I say no corsets doesn't have to be sexy garments, and yes people can work in them, and eeeeveryone wore them after a period of time and people asked why I knew this and I had to out myself on how much youtube I watch in a day ._________.
Lmaooo
CJ Shaw this is a call out and I demand that you cease
Me, a non-native English speaker: another historical video from that eloquent charming lady, what a delight!
Bernadette: 1:58
Well... that escalated quickly.
Another non-native English speaker here and i still managed to understand Bernadette (could be because i understand old german but... yeah)
Native English speaker. Yea, the average native English speaking person cannot understand a word of old English. In fact there is a misconception (edit: among native English speakers) that the language Shakespeare wrote with was old English, when in reality it is Early Modern English. The old English here kind of sounded Germanic to me, but that might be just me.
emily ticket English is _not_ rooted in German. Perhaps you instead meant to say that both English and German are _Germanic_ languages?
@@nikkigriffin6441 that's cause it was formed kinda before the french conquest in the 11th century
Native English speaker here: I had a professor once start speaking old English as if it was normal and honestly thought I was having a stroke because everyone was just nodding along 😂😂 turned out none of us knew what was happening but no one wanted to be the first to say anything. And that's how I learned what old English sounded like!
Well shite, the vampire is the most historically accurate...
i mean its 250 bucks it gotta be
They were there, of course they got it right.
@@arudanel5542 hahahaha made my day XD thanks!!!
Honestly, wearing a historically accurate dress on Halloween would be so much better than whatever that was...
Agreed lol
Not for our wallets :'(
@@cheesiscool335444 true…
Which one lol
i DEFINITELY agree!
the more i watch of this lady,the more my theory of her being a billion year old time traveler becomes a fact rather than said theory
She's secretly a time lord isn't she...
@@dees3179 Does that mean Cathy Hay is another incarnation/regeneration that came back to hang out/prevent a timeline collapse?
The more I watch her videos, the more I'm ashamed of my English. Tbh, even if it's not English, I cannot even be that intellectual in my own mother tongue 😂😅
Museum: you can’t use the historic art we own
Her: well damn I’ll make my own historic art then
*500 years later..
@@Ghorda9 'As we can see back in the 21st century they decided to revive earlier styles with pigmentation uncharacteristic of the times, the primary sources coming from the lovely Lady Banner-'
She’s American. She can give them the middle finger posting here.
@@genli5603 Or is she?
Haha, lol
I have absolutely no idea why TH-cam recommended this video to me, but I've got to appreciate the level of nerdiness. Absolutely fabulous.
I discovered my love for historical fashion because of this video and man do I appreciate the TH-cam algorithm
Once in a Blue Moon, the monstrosity that is the TH-cam algorithm has a moment of kindness…
Same. Just randomly showed up on my suggested a month ago. I have been delightfully addicted ever since.
"Level of nerdiness" I love that 😂
Nice profile picture.
"In terms of historical accuracy, we have no historical accuracy."
A very just point.
Bernadette: "I will pedantically point out--"
Me: please do, that is the best part
Along with the not-so-subtle charm of sarcasm. I laughed quite loudly several times watching this.
It's all I ask from historians. Be as specific as possible about how everyone is wrong.
This is the main reason I love this channel. Plus, I get to learn some details, which I love. MORE DETAIL PLEASE! 😃
I want her to tell me WHY my clothes suck exactly. I need a 2 pages essay on evey outfit I have ever made for a character and how bad it is, because they look terrible and underwhelming
Erica Lee "Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct."
We stan a woman who mixes millennial terminology and old English together
Verily, her anachronism game is on fleek.
@@DerMacko Stan comes from the Eminem song Stan, in which a fan (Stan) obsesses over Em to a rather terrifying degree. It ends with Stan killing himself and his pregnant girlfriend because he didn't get a personal response from Eminem. Thus, to "Stan" someone is to obsess over them to a potentially dangerous degree.
DerMacko ^what they said except it’s more positive the way it’s used these days like super fan lol
greenyawgmoth
word meanings can change over time. so yes, it originally meant a crazy stalker obsessed fan type, but now it means an avid fan.
Not to be THAT person, but she definitely does not use old English, but rather old modern english... see old English is a nearly unrecognizable, and she only spoke a line in 'old English', though that is uncommon for her videos.....
As a musician who specializes in pre-14th century vocal music, I freaked out when I heard that Old English. You go girl
Thats so cool! I love classical!
“We are already banishing that hat to the deepest bits of hell, so let’s be rid of the parasol and call this evening wear.” How to be an education savage.
Let's not forget the lace gloves went along with the hat, it seems
The whole video is the definition of educational shade and I live for it
I once saw a witch costume labelled "Mediaeval Rennacaince Victorian Sexy". Possibly the worst historical costume sin in existence
Edit: so I found another, someone on wish put up a robe a la francaise (I think I'm spelling that right) and labelled it 'medieval renaissance victorian'
A robe a la fraincaise..
From the 1700's..
In the roccoco period..
Why??
It hurts
Thanks. I just gagged reading that.
Is it medieval?! Is it renaissance?! Is it Victorian?! They need to make up their mind!
Thanks i hate it
Ow. Ow.
"Ultimate puff" sounds like an epic vintage pastry cookbook
Well....make it happen captain.
I'm learning to bake so I can write this
MAXIMUM FLOOFAGE
When you talked about the Southern Belle costume and the differences between day wear and evening wear, I got flashbacks of 'Gone with the Wind' when Mammy berates Scarlett for wanting to wear a low-cut dress to the barbecue - "You can't show your bosom before 3 o'clock!"
I thought it was supposed to be some kind of sexy bo beep dress 🤣 i did not see a southern belle at all
Literally the first thing I thought of also
Me three!
I thought the same thing! I just LIVE for the many sections of the book where clothing is discussed! Some of it is just fun to imagine, like the trendy new outfit that the formerly-trashy Emmie Slattery wears, when she and her overseer baby-daddy visit and threaten to buy Tara. Yet many other parts describing clothing are very important in the story and show just how stifling and awful some of the norms and values were back then!
Married women could only wear subdued colors like "tacky greys, tans, doves and lilacs" (as Scarlett refers to them, LOL), and widows like Scarlett were expected to remain in hot, head to toe black for life - and your black veil had to be ankle length for the first three years you were a widow! Jewelry was also forbidden, unless it was "made from the hair of the deceased", along with ever displaying overt happiness in public! Really makes me appreciate Rhett Butler more, as he purposely helped Scarlett shake off the confines of her widowhood, by bidding to dance with her at the auction, and by tempting her with that beautiful, green hat from Paris. Great. Now I want to re-read it again, for the twentieth time!
@@rachelectroDC-84 plenty of married women wore other colors than those listed, though they did usually opt for less attention grabbing ones. And mourning didn't have to last a woman's whole life after her husband died. Two to three years was a socially acceptable period and there were several stages of it to go through, from the initial phase where a woman had to wear the ankle length veil and no jewelry, matte fabrics in all black, to the second stage of all black (some gray acceptable), a shorter veil (hip length was common), fabrics that had some shine, to the end stage where it was a very short veil, and fabrics in colors such as mauve, grays, and deep purples were acceptable. Some women stayed in mourning their whole lives for a lost husband or child, but plenty of them moved on as well, especially if she remarried or had other children to care for.
✔️detailed info about historical dress
✔️ Extensive Footnotes
✔️Morgan Donner Easter egg
1000/10 awesome video
@@CathyHay I would love to watch such a thing.
I literally squeaked to see the Morgan Donner picture!!
I can't believe how naturally you combine such proper speech with slang.
imagine being so proper, well educated, having a vocab bigger than my future, and being a talented seamstress. shes really pretty too. ;w;
Is anyone else kinda happy she used Morgan Donner's Italian laurel gown as an example of ladder lacing?
Yes, I love that gown, and Morgan Donner!
Absolutely!
People do not realize that the time period with the "hottest" outfits was actually the Paleolithic. And hunter-gatherer societies in later periods. Lots and lots of bare skin if the climate was warm
I am 100% positive that you could find a (and I absolutely despise the fact that I'm going to type this out) "sexy cavewoman" costume somewhere in the hellish depths of Halloween costume markets.
@@Caroline28483
Sure, those are arguably not accurate either though. In fact, many real ones were kind of... topless.
I learned that in older civilizations, men *and* women could go around topless so... that.
@@andrewgust-anderson5612 As a mother who has nursed, being allowed to go topless would have made life so much easier hahaha
@@Caroline28483 I don't think you'd need to go to the depths
I can't tell you how much my academic heart sings at the prospect of numbered footnotes and actual references in an otherwise highly entertaining youtube video.
Amen, Amen, Amen.
Love the footnotes
Eva Yes!!
Same!! As a history major it made me swoon to see Turabian(Chicago) styled footnoted when I hit the description😂😍
"But our lady seems to have opted for the bougie form fitting look here"
- Bernadette banner, 2019
"Our lady has seemed to have opted for the 'boujee' form-fitting look here." I am absolutely dead!
English is my second language and as soon as 1:58 happened theres an imaginary record scratch sound in my brain
English is my first language and I heard the dial up sound quite clearly while I tried to determine if she'd just slipped into like Flemish or Dutch hoping we wouldn't comment on it.
English is my first language and I had the same reaction. Then I realized she was speaking old english.
English is my second language but I am sleepy af and didn't even notice it
English is my first language but I want to learn how to speak Arthurian English
Bernadette: speaks Old English
Me, a non-native Linguistics major: squeals in delight
... Also, if not for the plague that will not be named, I would have learned how to speak Old English semi-fluently by now...
As a native speaker: god, I'd love to learn it. Modern languages are more practical but dead ones are just so much more _fun_
@Ishani Kumar 1# astethic lol
I need to learn old english
Middle English is fairly easy to read and understand because it's primarily a series of standardized spelling and grammar changes that occurred during the transition to Modern English. For example, using the letter y where we now use i or having an extra -e on the ends of words. Once you begin to recognize the patterns, it's not difficult and you can fly through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in an afternoon.
Old English, however, is practically an entirely different language. It looks and sounds a lot more Germanic than the English we speak now. I actually thought Bernadette was speaking German for a quick second until I realized what she was doing, that clever minx 😂
@@d.lan3y how are they more practical? The only words any of you ever bring to the not very round table is vibe, aesthetic, and the over-usage of saying literally as though it's some destined form of exaggeration. You think the cliches people make you into aren't so, but then everything matches up immediately.
Bernadette: Speaks extremely properly for eighteen minutes straight, and casually throws shade in Arthurian English.
Also Bernadette: "...and pinned securely to the cap-thing..."
She might actually speak like this because she has sort of a British accent
Me, watching this while hand sewing my blatantly incorrect costume: YEAAHHHH YOU TELL ‘EM!!
My heavens, it's been about 3 minutes and I'm STILL laughing over your comment! GOOD ONE! :)
Yeah, me too. I was just thinking and Pinterest-searching for Halloween costume ideas and then I watched this :'D
You can’t have a historically inaccurate costume if you’re a goose
I hand sewed a dress from the 1620s that was supposed to be accurate but was mashed together with anything I could find lol so my costume only looked accurate
20Little Princess04
Next year I will prove you wrong
1:57
Did she-
Did she just??
English philology majors be like *damn*
Really putting the "lol" in philology.
Aye...
Yeah, I was pretty impressed by that as well!
was the d more pronounced and stressed in old English compared to what we speak nowadays? her 'stunde' really stands out.
for a second I was like- why on earth is she speaking german 😂
Oh my god this woman could literally read out the entire Encyclopedia, and it would sound like the most interesting thing ever
"OG Elizabethans"
...
I have no words
I know right.
Bernadette Sooths my soul.😁
She reminds me of one of my friends who is very proper and to whom I had to teach "young people speak"
Not gonna lie; I want more. If this was a Halloween tradition I wouldn’t mind.
AH! Your confident lines are so satisfying to watch. I'm so jealous of the way you draw clothing folds with ease.
I really would love to see historically accurate fairy tale dresses, like Cinderella, beauty and the beast, that kind of stuff. With your drawings alongside as well!! They’re absolutely gorgeous and watching you paint them was so calming and relaxing!
Jordyn Marie just know something... the Disney Cinderella was based on Grimms’ Ashenputtel, which in turn was based on a Chinese tale from the 900s. OR, there’s an even older Greek version.
So... be ready for slightly nightmarish things showing up
I agree!!
@@icarusbinns3156 is that a bad thing? XD
SonsOfLorgar only if you consider foot binding and willful mutilation of feet to be horrifying. But feet are rather unnerving to begin with. Who needs that many bones in one small appendage? Apparently... humans do
There’s a video on BuzzFeed about historically accurate Disney princesses, and it was directed by Eugene Lee Yang. It gives an accurate representation on what they should’ve worn, and it also gives background information on the people living during those times !!
Bernadette: *expertly covers multiple historical periods of dress*
Me: Yup, yup, that, yup. *while knitting a hoodie for my cat*
I just need to buckle down a knit some historically accurate patterns one of these days. Even if a woman knitting is borderline heresy prior to the invention of the knitting machine (16th century?).
SewardWriter Ooh,I love knitting, it’s so fun!
I would love to test out historical patterns
Well, at least you can knit something lol. My only goal is to sew torn stuff up (aka socks)
that cat better enjoy his or her hoodie. IT WAS MADE OUT OF LOVE
OMG, I need that pilgrim outfit for everyday wear (not the plastic nightmare, your drawing version, obvs.) BRING BACK THE COIF!!
Yes! I would absolutely love to have at least the choice of covering my hair without having to face censure/prejudice/weird looks.
The aesthetic of coifs are forever my favourite historical dress item. #bringbackthecoif
They were also just immensely practical! Whoever has time to do anything but tie their hair in a bun every morning whilst kids scream their heads off to be fed? I can't remember the last time I washed my hair, and I only have one child 😭
I wonder how one would go about making one. If only there were a video tutorial. Somewhere...
I love it! Coifs are so practical. Also the 1940s-era snood, which I have seen with pretty beads woven into them - so they can be fashionable as well!
9:51 I love it when she use her other pencil's eraser because her mechanic pencil's eraser no longer exist. i totally understand :')
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Do you know where I can get a “Slutty Plague Victim” costume?
Asking for a friend.
Would that be with or without buboes?
@@itz_ashane6886 loool
Lol
Slutty Plague DOCTOR is the new hotness
@@sblinder1978 You can do a lot with those long noses.
I like hearing about "Historical" Halloween costumes, but what about historical "Halloween Costumes"?
Waht?
Oh, that would be great! There’s gotta be a video out the somewhere on history of Halloween and when we started wearing costumes/what they were like.
@@boopboop5231 what people historically wore on Halloween, instead of modern Halloween costumes trying to emulate history
Old Halloween costumes were horrifying... people walked around with porcelain baby masks and thought that was okay
I clicked on this video thinking it would be that XD
No regrets tho
She's so passive aggressive through this whole thing and I love it
"we are already banishing that hat to the deepest pits of hell." And I just had tea come out my nose. Thanks for that.
F
Bernadette casually being a complete savage for 18 minutes straight
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Rebecca Rimon she’s not being a “savage”.
Ban*n*er? No, B A N T E R!
Yes she is. She is correcting the modern costume-wearer on the proper manner of dress, while at the same time telling them how ignorant and crass they are.
Bernadette destroying my medieval festival costume dreams since 2019. My very polyester, maroon, laced dress is crying
She is so elegant and her diction is amazing. Like it’s so soothing to listen to
Bernadette: Perfectly Pontificates With Proper Pronunciation, Grammer, And Annunciation
Me: can spell words pretty good sumtimes
Grammar*
Enunciation*
That kinda made the joke funnier
Ironically enough, the grammar where you described yourself is more correct than how you described Bernadette’s lol
Florence Schad lol that’s the joke 😀 I don’t think the other bits are tho
Florence Schad yep, that’s the joke
You fill a niche in my life where Raymond Holt is the only other occupant
kimber Lee yessssss so true!!
yes!! his actor is a trained shakespearean actor
You should check out Baumgartner restorations too, he's got the same classy vibe but with painting restorations
Best comment
Bernadette: "A literal armful of skirt"
Me: The picture is "The Marriage of Arnolfini", isn't it?
* looks at footnotes *
Me: yea
This is EXACTLY the picture I thought of. Didn't even need to look.
*I feel like I'm watching a medieval reporter telling me everything I need to know.*
I'm just so impressed. Historian, seamstress, and artist. What's next, Politician? I'd vote for her.
Bernadette for President 2020.
Oookie
She would be the best politician
@@cryptid176 party city would be banned and everyone would live happily ever after
Maybe with Bernadette around men would endeavor to be gentlemen. Considering that one of our esteemed representatives called a female colleague an F-ing B on the steps of our capitol building. Then there was the whole insurrection thing.
Please no--she's too good for that.
Halloween company’s: make historically incorrect costumes
Bernadette Banner: *politely triggered*
Hannah Hunter she literally did an introductory disclaimer bit, did you miss that?
I read that as “Politically triggered” instead of “politely triggered”. Which gave me two laughing fits instead of one and I appreciate your comment greatly
Oh wow, I didn't even realize she said politely and not politically
Rachelle Scott this is the best thing I’ve read today
Kelleymarie Jones this was just for entertainment and it’s much easier that reading an entire book. What are you doing here if we are all ‘bloody TH-cam worshipers’ and you’re also on TH-cam
And they could've gotten away with every single costume if they had just added the word "fantasy" 😆
or if it wasn't for those meddling kids!
Someone with a functioning brain would have realized that was implied.
@@ozegirl44 thank you for putting that! I thought of that, too!
Like if you're an OG Elizabethan watching from the 1500s.
I'm a edwardian
Art Neauveau detective here, my time travel machine broke down in the 1500s and I identify as an “OG Elizabethan”
Nah, I'm an immortal but I'm a new immortal
I was a rich young lady, then i married a very smart man, who carried the philosophers stone, so I could stay alive.
We've been "Elizabethans" since 1953. I'm in authentic Elizabethan dress right now.
*Friend walks into halloween party wearing vampire "eighteenth century" dress*
Me: WeLl AcTuAlLy-
You: *show her this video
If they are going to make these costumes so expensive, can’t they at least make them accurate?
Oh man, this was a solid video. When you spoke Old English, you got me right in the historical feels. 😂 I practically swooned. 😂👍
I know that the problem with copyright was annoying with the images but truthfully I loved watching you draw out the historical corrections to the costumes while explaining why it was right. I understand that this is not a format that is probably sustainable for every video, but I loved it and hope you make more.
I absolutely love how reasoned everything was. Thanks for sharing and I would totally buy one of your eBay drawings if I wasn’t so cash poor.
Yay! As a domestic historian, I always appreciate a little tasteful “setting the record straight” PSA. Thank you, and well done. 😊💕
Ne man:
Eall ne man:
Bernadette: Slieht an Eald Englisc.
(No-one: Absolutely no-one: Bernadette: Slays in Old English)
(Look, I know it's wrong, I tried. But we cannot all have the historical game on lock.)
Wow. Sounds almost like German..
your sketching....watercoloring....fabulous by itself. So lovely.
I plan on being a very historically accurate leopard.
So be a Tiger.
Maybe you should look at Leopard in a video or at the Zoo and not a CGI movie.
Big cat or the tank?
Me: avoiding my Old English homework
Bernadette: speaks Old English
And just when you think you're safe watching YT, it sneaks up on you. Every. Single. Time.
Man, I wish I had old English homework 😂
Me:*avoiding to study for chemistry class*
Bernadette: I'm about to end these costume designers' whole career :)
Me:*opens video*
It’s not even funny because I was just doing hamlet work and decided to stop for bed, yet here I am.
@@windflowerrainstorm6497 Anthropology. You need to learn a dead language.
Could you rate American girl dolls on their historical accuracy?
on the southern belle i kept thinking “you can’t show your bosom before 3 o’clock!”
"If you say one word to mother, I won't eat a bite!"
If you didn't read that in Mammy's voice YOU ARE LYING
Scarlet did, that little hussy! Lol!
“Banishing that hat to the deepest pits of hell” is probably the best sentence I’ve heard
Did she make a Harry Potter reference?
“To the first unsuspecting ‘muggle’ you happen upon”
AlphaWolfy oh yeah. She’s a Ravenclaw
Mary, Dearest I love how you feel the need to tell us which house she’s in, as if we couldn’t tell already lmao 😂
Caitlin my brain went “oh, they know what she’s referring to! Do they know her house?”
@@Jogjosmowwdkfs Hermione Granger!!
Mary, Dearest I get it, I think I came off a little mean in my reply tho, sorry about that. 😓
Bernadette : I talk about historical costumes and accurate historical représentations, I love long constructed phrases and I have an extended and extremely detailed vocabulary of the stuff I know and talk about.
also Bernadette : 14:01 "maximum floofage"
1:58 I *thought* she had an accent--finally placed it. Bernadette is a time traveller, confirmed.
now we have to prove she has hidden a tardis somewhere.
She can’t keep it hidden forever...
"Approximately 1 whole eternity"
Very precise
Me seeing the Elizabeth the first costume: "oh hey that seems actually pretty good-"
Bernadette: "everything is wrong"
Me: "Everything is wrong!"
I *really* enjoyed this. I suppose you could write an entire book about the inaccuracies with halloween costumes. How did you select the ones you decided to critique?
Bernadette Banner can you do book recommendations video pleaseee you are so articulate and i admire it plus i need more books to read 😁
@@thesnowflakediaries5267 Yes! I fully support book recommendations! Perhaps you could also suggest which Janet Arnold book would be best for someone who wants to #historybound on a more regular basis?
"gothic vampire trash collar things" I cannot deal
That was the best thing I have heard in a long time. Perfect!
@@goldengryphon When she said that, I had to 'pause' and replay that little section just to make sure I had heard it right. Lol.
@@MJkatzTheWriter This may go on a "Things to play when I'm having a Bad Day" list. I have known too many LARPers, and now the cosplayers have filled any gaps that remained. (ignoring the 'Lolly' crowd. y'all are cool, just ... I've got my hands full.)
part of me knows that halloween costumes are just for funsies, the other part of me is with Bernadette in thinking "what are you doing?"
her: speaking historically about fashion and doing some noice art to accompany it
me: we have the same pencil. lol.
About everyone has that pencil
No one:
Queen Elizabeth: MAKE IT POOFY UNTIL IT IS A PIECE OF POOF
AND ADD ALL THE PEARLS
m o r e
p e a r l s
I want to be a cloud of pearls!!
Dress designer: How much pearls and ruffles your majesty wants?
Queen Elizabeth: yes
11:46
“W-W-WHATDOYOUMEAN ‘I THINK YOU STOLE MY FLATSCREEN AND ARE TRYING SNEAK IT OUT” HOW DARE YOU IM OFFENDED THAT YOU WOULD EVEN THINK THAT”
I have no idea why you would entertain the notion that I have stolen your 75” television! This is only my skirt! I don’t feel well is all. I’m just going to go home.
Ha! When you want a flat screen, but you poor af!!
@@EH23831 fo real
How fortuitous that this aired in the midst of my endeavor to curate a costume for myself on the theme of “mysterious peasant woman gathering questionable herbs from the woods during no particular era.” I now have greater knowledge that will help my final look be even more vague!
Alas, I have limited options in the way of sewing materials where I live and am waiting on a delivery of fabric dye.
Thank you for the summary of eras outside my field of knowledge!
I *love* your theme, DahliaDear!
Damn......now I’m dying to see the polyester “sexy” version of
mysterious peasant woman gathering questionable herbs from the woods during no particular era.
Love it,
An astonishing theme
I want to see this costume really bad now, it sounds amazing.
@DahliaDear - ^_^ [
I don't know why this was in my suggestions, but now I can say that I've never listened so long to someone speaking so interestingly about fashion. Respect to you.
As a young man loving classical, historical and vintage fashion.. I’m in love with her. As a lover of linguistics and languages, when Bernadette started to speak in historical English, I love her even more...if it’s possible :-D.
I love how Bernadette spews out a sarcastic array of long and articulate words, then follows it by just a ‘sOmeTHing’ or ‘LiTeraLlY’
All I can say is: Bernadette the Ancient Immortal is confirmed. She be speaking Arthurian English!!!
"...bidding starts at $1"
me: oh honey...*looks at ebay listings and sees that all are nearly above $80 - one is at nearly $200*
Yeah...Bernadette...you underestimate how much we love your artwork :)
over 220., 113. least expensive
She's gonna make a thousand dollars for these five drawings, easy!
Those drawings are now more expensive than the costumes that she was talking about.
I'd like to buy some of your artistic skill!
@@laerin7931 And MUCH prettier...