What ‘Bridgerton’ can teach you about power dressing

Beneath the lush gowns of the hit Netflix show are sartorial lessons in communicating authority, personality and taste.

Netflix drama Bridgerton reimagines Britain's Regency era with Golda Rosheuvel (centre) as Queen Charlotte. Liam Daniel/Netflix

Lauren Indvik

Jan 22, 2021 – 10.35am

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Into the long, colourless stretch of days between Christmas and New Year's Eve arrived a bright, baubled, deliciously frothy Netflix period drama about a promising young debutante’s quest to find a suitable husband in her first London social season.

Set in 1813, the same year Pride and Prejudice was published, Bridgerton has all the trappings of a Jane Austen romance, but with a modern warp. It imagines a Regency-era society presided over by a Queen Charlotte who is a woman of colour (some historians have theorised Queen Charlotte had African ancestry) and where titles of nobility are held by both white and black people.

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