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I am Nicola Cochlin. I play Penelope Featherington.

I also have tried on some costumes and I'm getting two new wigs.

They're epic. I tried on one the other day and I was like, don't take it off. Because when you take the wig off, you look like a sad snake. Because your hair is all glued down and, you know, I'm just so bloody pale. I look like the moon. So like I was like... A sad snake. Yeah, I just like, it's just like a big Voldemort head. I look just awful.

Welcome to Bridgeton, the official podcast, where we're going to take you behind the scenes of Bridgeton. I'm Gabrielle Collins. I'm Hannah Gregg. And in this episode, we're continuing to put a spotlight

on the inspiration for the Bridgeton series.

One of the really exciting things about the Bridgeton series

is that the destiny of the characters isn't quite written yet.

Literally, season two is underway as we're talking right now.

And the story arcs of these characters and of the book series have taken a whole new life with

Shandaland. So we're going to get a little closer to some of the show's characters,

and we're going to do that through the lens of costume design, which is why I am so

pleased to have Hannah here. She's the perfect guide because she literally wrote the book, so to say,

on fashionable society. Would you say, Hannah, like a lot of your research has centered around this?

Yeah, the book is called the Beaumont Fashionable Society in Georgia and London, so I suppose you could say that, yeah. Literally.

So I think that I'm coming at this as someone who has been wearing yoga pants for the last

year and a half. And it's just a little harder for me to

appreciate the importance of fashion. What is fashion? What is fashion? What is a fashion? Can you

help us wrap our minds around what fashionable society is as we look at character development?

You know, fashion is a word that we use a lot today. But I think if we sat down and tried to

actually say exactly what it is, we'd start to get in a little bit of a knot about, is it just

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