Outlander Wardrobe and language

[Nathan]

It's a television show based on a romance novel. If it's historical accuracy you're seeking, look elsewhere. The errors in the presentation of time travel alone were astounding.

I'm not looking for historical accuracy there, but I am looking for it here. I need to know how much this show is leading me astray from understanding how my people lived and dressed in that era. Costume dramas are best when they get the costumes right, though.

[Terry1948]

I'm not looking for historical accuracy there, but I am looking for it here. I need to know how much this show is leading me astray from understanding how my people lived and dressed in that era. Costume dramas are best when they get the costumes right, though.

I think getting feedback from knowledgeable XMarkers is a good way to get accurate information, but please don't view the show as leading you astray. I think if the show inspires you to do more research, then it has been successful from a historical perspective.

A friend of mine is a policeman in a major North American city. Once I made the "mistake" of watching a cop-drama with him, and spent the whole time having to listen to him pick out the inaccuracies. At the end of the show, I asked him if he even enjoyed it, or were the "errors" so off-putting.... his response was that the errors appealed to him on an intellectual level (how many could he find), but they did not detract from the enjoyment of the overall experience.

Hopefully you will have the same experience with the Outlander series!

[Lodrorigdzin]

I'm not looking for historical accuracy there, but I am looking for it here. I need to know how much this show is leading me astray from understanding how my people lived and dressed in that era. Costume dramas are best when they get the costumes right, though.

Well, I remember a Wuthering Heights adaptation of a few years back, that finally "got" all the West Indies slavery references in the novel. (They're in Jane Eyre too, by the way) Very historically accurate, but it caused a modest uproar: Heathcliff black!? How dare they!