Bustling With ‘Bridgerton’: Painting The Ton Silver in Season 4
Bustling with 'Bridgerton' is back for Season 4, and we've got your rundown of Part 1's best looks.
Bridgerton is back! Well, half-back. Yes, Netflix left us all hanging most cruelly after debuting the first half of its fourth season in January. I, too, am back with another look at the series’ costume design, once again headed up by designer John Glaser, whom I interviewed in the run-up to Season 3.
For the first time in Bridgerton history, many costumes this season appear to be reruns. That’s not due to budget cuts, but a practice that makes perfect sense, given that, apart from the many themed balls that mark the passage of time in the ton’s marriage mart, even highly fashionable and wealthy people such as the Bridgertons, Lady Danbury (Adjoah Andoh), and Lord Anderson (Daniel Francis) would re-wear their clothes. They would also have them made over or updated where possible.
Therefore, on a day-to-day basis, Lady Penwood (Katie Leung) and her daughters, Miss Rosamund Li (Michelle Mao) and Miss Posy (Isabella Wei), are the ones who stand out the most. Lady Penwood demonstrates her fashion-consciousness through the mental spreadsheet of her shoe inventory – about 500 pairs, as we learn when Sophie (Yerin Ha) is tasked with cleaning them all – and through the gowns she and her daughters routinely wear.
