#(the joke is that the costumes are SCRUPULOUSLY accurate for no reason at all)

[marzipanandminutiae]

director of The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992): okay we need to costume both our puppets and humans in something festive and Victorian. but you know. no need to go crazy. it’s a kids’ movie, after all

costume designer, snorting a line of coke off an 1843 issue of Le Bon Ton fashion magazine: right, right

#muppet christmas carol #(the joke is that the costumes are SCRUPULOUSLY accurate for no reason at all) #like if I'm remembering the Abby Cox video correctly they copied a really specific type of smock popular with British working-men #of the day #for a costume Rizzo wears in one five-minute scene #drug use