Outlander Costume Recap & Podcast: Season 2, Episode 3

21 thoughts on “Outlander Costume Recap & Podcast: Season 2, Episode 3”

1. Sometimes a pansy, embroidered or real, is just a pansy. *grins* Seriously, though I loved the episode. Wee Fergus is cute, but having survived in a brothel and the streets is tough. He has the ability to look like a starving boy, Claire doesknow it’s an act, but falls sorta anyway.

   Costumes were so gorgeous, especially the yellow dress and Louise’s gown.
   I want the DVD now so I can pause and photograph pics.

   Ms Dresbach posted Master Raymond’s coat on her blog. I like how there are subtle and sorta subtle cues to his interest on it. Maybe Geillis took these to heart. *even wider grin*.

   I agree I need a set of panniers. Wonder if I can buy them with a new corset with tax refund?

2. Cait’s name is pronounces Cah treena Balf

   1. Thanks!

3. I ADORE that Banyan dressing gown. I have a Mantua Pattern for a similar garment and it was a horror of screams and tears trying to make one with the box pleating all lining up. I give Terry and her team TONS of credit getting that pattern correct. I adore that black weskit and coat Jamie is wearing. It makes me wish for an embroidery machine.

4. Ugh this episode was just so beautiful I couldn’t pay attention to the story. I loved the look of every single costume! Evidently I’ll have to watch it again just to make sure I got everything out of it. ;)

   Spoilers for folk who haven’t read the book … but I think Maitre Raymond is hinted at being a fellow “traveller”, which would explain his bizarre waistcoat.

5. But did you like Jamie’s waistcoat? :). The embroiderer, Liz Boulton, does an amazing job. Everything is so beautiful.

   1. Sorry about the spelling. Apparently my smartphone autocorrect got drunk while I was typing. But yes the embroidery was mouth watering.

6. I’m in love, lust, with Jamie’s waistcoat. It’s truly a work of art.
   It’s truly a wonder that the embroiderer, Liz Boulton, doesn’t need a new eyeglass RX due to such close work.

7. TOTALLY unrelated to anything here BUT: It’s funny that I was sitting here listening to the podcast while tatting with my abalone tatting shuttle from Laci’s and then y’all start talking about Laci’s and then I got to learn how to correctly pronounce the name of the store! Thank you for that!

   1. Ha! Yay!

8. The costumes this episode were exquisite! I think my favorites were the saffron gown and the blue silk satin overgown ensemble with the pink peeping out. I remember Frock Flicks pointing out the lack of robings on the saffron gown when we first saw images of season 2 costumes in the trailer, but I thought the lack of robings worked after hearing Terry’s thought process on adapting Claire’s costumes so that they express her unique viewpoint. It makes sense to me that Claire would say, “Ugh, no, too much frou frou, line the bodice with something simpler.”

   Word on the street is that shagging will recommence in the next episode (I mean, he found his “snake” at the end of this episode…), so hopefully Jamie’s hair will improve. I don’t think we will ever see him in a wig… I actually can’t remember him ever wearing a wig in the books; Diana usually describes his hair as being “in a formal queue” when he attends formal events. I predict they will cut it halfway through the season, if they are staying true to the books, which I’m very much looking forward to, because the length of Sam Heughan’s hair in the season 1 premiere was peak hotness.

   I did not notice that BP Charlie’s frock coat was embroidered with pansies! God, I pray that was intentional. Hilarious.

   Bouton is the best. There is a moment in the book where Jamie is trying to enter the hospital and Bouton is blocking the entrance. Claire overhears Jamie attempting to “reason” with Bouton and he says, “Think it over, laddie, I’m a damn sight bigger than you. I wouldna undertake any rash ventures, if I were you… Faster, too… I don’t have to put up wi’ this, ye ken.” I wish they would have included it; Jamie’s sense of humor is one of the traits that makes him so attractive and sometimes I feel like the show writers don’t get it.

   Thanks for the post and podcast!

   1. Jamie finally dons a wig in the third book, but only to be in disguise.

      1. I don’t remember that. I remember “dunbonnet” tho!

         1. LJG’s party in Jamaica.

9. How did Jamie and Claire afford such an extensive wardrobe so quickly after leaving Scotland with barely anything? The wine merchant cousin?

   Is this the episode in which Claire tasted a patient’s urine?

   1. Yes and yes!

10. Well you’re angry that we picked on the costumes in our top 10 1980s TV movies post because we didn’t take into account the whole production, but now you’re irritated that some of us like this show despite what you feel is bad writing? And, YMMV kind of applies to life in general.

11. I’ve been following your blog for a year or so and love it. When I was in grade school my mother made me a very lovely Marie Antoinette costume for Halloween. Even though I would say things like, “Off with their heads” and “Let them eat cake,” I was mistaken for Martha Washington. Don’t you people see I’m not wearing a fichu? Don’t you see I’m not an old lady? Meanwhile, I never knew the shoe boxes she used underneath to give the dress that distinct elongated shape were called pocket hoops! Thanks for a great and informative blog. Costume dramas are my favorite.

    1. Pfff, heathens who don’t know the difference between Marie Antoinette and Martha Washington! Glad you’ve found us!

12. The name of the flower pansy in French is ‘pensée’, which roughly translates to thoughts. While the white rose was symbolic of the Stuart king “over the water,” this ensemble could be a visual cue to keep the Stuart cause in the thoughts of their loyalists. “Pensez en moi” – think of me.

    1. Pensez à moi.

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