12 Period Costumes That Got It Completely Wrong

    Coral lipstick, curtains, culottes and some big ol' collars: sometimes period films look a lot more like when they were made than set.

    Nell Frizzell
    by Nell Frizzell

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    1. Nice culottes with Joey from Blossom's shirt, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe

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    It's meant to look like: the 1920s

    It actually looks like: 1991

    2. Nice striped lapels/ flowery collar combo, Robert Redford in The Sting

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    It's meant to look like: 1936

    It actually looks like: 1973

    3. Nice totally caucasian face, John Wayne in The Conqueror

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    It's meant to look like: 1186 (in Mongolia)

    It actually looks like: 1956 (in Utah)

    4. Nice eyeliner Faye Dunawaye in Bonny and Clyde

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    It's meant to look like: 1936

    It actually looks like: 1967

    5. Nice leather jacket and heinous peroxide spike cut, Sting in Quadrophenia

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    It's meant to look like: 1965

    It actually looks like: 1979

    6. Nice coral lipstick and slimline trousers, Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins

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    It's meant to look like: 1910

    It actually looks like: 1964

    7. Nice mullet, Kevin Coster in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

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    It's meant to look like: 1322

    It actually looks like: 1991

    8. Nice shiny baseball cap, massive shoulders and pink ra-ra skirt, Back To The Future II

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    It's meant to look like: 2015

    It actually looks like: 1989

    9. Nice feather cut, Shani Wallis in Oliver!

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    It's meant to look like: 1838

    It actually looks like: 1968

    10. Nice pastel turn ups, Jeremy Irons in Brideshead Revisited

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    It's meant to look like: 1923

    It actually looks like: 1981

    11. Nice Joan Baez hair/ Rubber Soul-era Beatles cut, Zeferelli's Romeo and Juliet

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    It's meant to look like: "Medieval"

    It actually looks like: 1968

    12. Nice curtains and boy band waistcoat, Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula

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    It's meant to look like: 1893

    It actually looks like: 1992

    Still, at least his acting was fantastic.