15 Times When Costume Designers Are Too Lazy To Make Their Own Stuff And Borrow Instead

Movie costumes can be complicated, especially when it comes to historical films. The more extravagant the outfits are, the more time-consuming they will be. So some movie costume designers come up with a brilliant idea: Instead of spending months making up new stuff from scratch, why don’t they just use what they already have?
With that in mind, the designers borrow props from other movie sets and slightly alter them. The audiences certainly don’t mind seeing a beautiful costume twice or even more. It’s better to recycle these pieces rather than discard them only after one use and create new ones. That will be a waste!
So here are 15 times when fashion pieces reappear in other shows. Think you have the keen eyes to spot the costume similarities in your first watch? Scroll down and find out.

1. The muff made of pheasant feathers in Titanic was worn again by Christina Ricci in the 2015 miniseries The Lizzie Borden Chronicles.

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2. The brown gown worn by Billie Piper in Mansfield Park reappeared in the 2018 flick movie Les Miserables.

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3. In Onegin, Ralph Fiennes’s character wore a paisley waistcoat. Jonny Lee Miller wore the same one in the 2009 miniseries Emma.

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4. The green and beige patterned waistcoat from the 1995 movie Pride and Prejudice appeared again in Becoming Jane.

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5. The floppy mesh bonnet Rosamund Pike wore in the 2005 movie Pride & Prejudice was the same one that Emily Blunt wore in The Young Victoria.

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6. Marisa Berenson played Lady Honoria Lyndon in the 1975 movie Barry Lyndon. Her yellow hat with a ribbon and an ostrich feather would later appear in the 2006 movie Marie Antoinette.

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7. Helen Mirren wore a green hat embellished with jewels in the 2005 miniseries Elizabeth I. Natalie Dormer also wore it in the 2007 series The Tudors.

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8. The red velvet jacket Rebekah Wainwright wore in The Tudors appeared before in the 1998 movie Shakespeare in Love.

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9. The crown with spades and spikes first appeared in the 2003 movie The Lion in Winter. Its second feature was in the 2007 series The Tudors.

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10. The blouse with a floral pattern in Downton Abbey was featured again in the 2014 movie Testament of Youth.

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11. In the 1996 movie Emma, Greta Scacchi wore a beige muslin day dress. This gown would later appear again in the 2008 series Little Dorrit.

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12. The orange gown of a medieval girl appeared in the 1995 movie First Knight got onscreen again in the 2011 Camelot mini-series.

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13. The robe à la française in Dangerous Liaisons appeared once again in the 1992 movie Last of the Mohicans.

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14. The tiara adorned with large jewels was first worn by Joanne Whalle in Scarlett. It would later come back onscreen in The Tudors.

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15. The embroidered jacket appeared in both Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and Return of the Hero.

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