If you love watching historical shows like The Gilded Age, it's likely you also enjoy the fashion and costumes, the elaborate sets and art design, and the overall vibes of the time period. Inspired by one particularly beautifully-shot scene in this episode, we are going to take a deep-dive into some specific aspects of the art and fashion of the 1880s. We explore how The Gilded Age costumers and set designers seem to have taken heavy inspiration from paintings and portraits of the era by artists like John Singer Sargent, James Tissot, and Giovanni Boldini, as well as a very popular fashion house at the time, Worth. We'll also try to answer a common question: are the costumes on this television show historically accurate, especially the vivid color palettes? And in doing so, we'll go down a quick rabbit hole and talk about the fa ...