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Bridgerton, the steamy new Netflix series based on Julia Quinn’s beloved romance novels may be set in Regency-era England, but a period accurate Jane Austen mini-series it is not.
Instead, showrunner Chris Van Dusen crafted a heightened version of history, one in which the characters are diverse at every class level, and, given that it's a romance, all the less-than-savory elements of 19th-century life, chamber pots and the like, are carefully stored out of view. The overall look of the series is loosely rooted in historical fact—the production filmed in Britain's stately country homes and women wear dresses with that classic empire-waist silhouette. But everything is slightly modernized and often comes in a candy-colored palette. Costumes in particular were key to