"‘To adapt something is to means to ‘fit, adjust, modify’, and film costumes do exactly this: they conform to notions of realism, but also need to employ notions of cinematic spectacle. Even though their designers are often at pains to point out the extent of historical research that has been undertaken in the name of in the name of accuracy and authenticity … films seldom reproduce exact replicas, of say historical … fashions.’"
Sarah Street
Costume in Cineam: Dress code in Popular film, Routledge, London
