Now If only history class looked like Outlander, then we would have done so much better in school.
But when executive producer Ron D. Moore and his wife, Emmy Award-winning costume designer Terry Dresbach, sat down to start creating all of the amazingly authentic looks of Outlander’s characters, they had no idea they were in for the lesson of their lives…because what they thought they were going to dress their cast in was actually historically inaccurate!
What the married filmmaking duo found to be the most surprising part of creating the costumes was the process of figuring out exactly what the Highlanders wore.
Moore told E! News that “When Terry started doing research into what they actually wore, we were all surprised that a lot of our preconceptions of tartans and plaids and kilts was actually not true to the period,” The producer added “She really had to go back and design from scratch because everything we thought about the culture and what the people wore turned out to be a later interpretation of it. It’s interesting to go back historically and discover what the truth was.”
But ultimately all the hard work paid off as Moore complemented his wife’s master costume designing skills “I like how, if you look closely, some of the Highlander outfits have homemade patches and places they’ve been sewn as if they’ve been torn and ripped. We have a big aging and dying department that beats the crap out of the clothes so that they look like they’re worn and dirty. So whenever the actors walk around in them, they look like clothes as opposed to costumes.”
