00:00This is Samantha Parkington. She's set in 1904 New York.
00:04To bring Samantha to life, another type of source that we often use,
00:08in addition to textiles and everyday objects, is catalogs and magazines.
00:13We use catalogs in order to look at things like silhouettes and design details,
00:18but also things like price, because knowing the price of an item
00:22allows us to determine if, based on our character's socioeconomic class,
00:26or their location, or their background, if she would have had access to an item.
00:31Diaries and letters are also items that we really pull on
00:35when we're developing the historical characters.
00:37The diary really helps inform the tone of voice,
00:40and like the everyday details that infuse our stories with historical accuracy.
00:45Another fun fact about Samantha's school outfit here,
00:48is this is actually inspired by a popular comic strip character
00:52of the early 1900s, Buster Brown.
00:55And so you can see the high collar and the bow, which were really iconic to his look.
00:59The bow here is very iconic to Samantha, and if you look at all of the girls on this page,
01:04almost every single one of them is wearing a bow.
01:07That's a detail that comes right from her time period.
01:10A bow here?
01:10You come back and look at the head of the background.
01:10You go there, and you go there, and you go there, and you do.
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