Bustling With 'Bridgerton': Eloise is Going with the Flow in Season 3

Welcome to the second issue of Bustling With Bridgerton, where we celebrate and delve into the costumes designed for Bridgerton’s most interesting characters. Between the releases of the season’s two halves, costume designer John Glaser, along with associate costume designer Dougie Hawkes and assistant costume designer Henry Wilkinson, sat down with Telly Visions to chat about the visual inspirations, character and story arcs that they drew on for each character’s looks as her position in the ton and their experiences with the mysterious Lady Whistledown ebb and flow. The previous issue in this series covered developments in Queen Charlotte’s costumes across Bridgerton’s three seasons so far. This week, we dive into Violet Bridgerton’s fifth child overall, Eloise Bridgerton, former ride-or-die of Penelope Featherington and current BFF of Cressida Cowper.

Previously, On Bridgerton

Eloise Bridgerton (Claudia Jessie) — a middle child and the second of her family’s four daughters — has spent her first two seasons on the marriage mart (ew) feeling out of place. After her sister Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) made a splash in her first and only season, becoming a duchess by marrying Simon Bassett, Duke of Hastings (Régé-Jean Page), her sisters might all be expected to make similarly impressive matches. However, the rules, expectations, and niceties of the ton are not remotely Eloise’s cup of tea. She wears the Neoclassical, empire-waisted dresses that we associate so strongly with the Regency period, but that’s probably only because well-cut trousers won’t be available for women at the modiste for nearly another century.