The Regency Costumes in ‘Persuasion’ Take Inspiration From Debbie Harry, Patti Smith and Audrey Hepburn

In “Persuasion,” twenty-something Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) still mourns the demise of her first true love since she refused the proposal of dashing (and then-broke) naval captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis) eight long years prior. She finds some solace in a heartbreak “playlist” — paper sheet music stashed in a time-honored ex keepsake box as opposed to a CD or Spotify compilation. Like a Jane Austen classic, it serves as an evergreen and universal salve. That’s not the only part of our 19th-century protagonist that’s inflected with modernity in the Carrie Cracknell-directed Netflix adaptation. The anachronisms in Anne’s Regency-Era dress… Read Full Article