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Elinor and Marianne Dashwood needed their costumes to align perfectly with their characters. In this video, costume designer Grace Snell explains how that informed the dresses created for Daisy Edgar Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.
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00:00I think when designing for these two sisters we begin with Marianne being all about the
00:05sensibility and Eleanor being all about the sense. In some ways Eleanor is more like the parent. It
00:12was really interesting to play with that dynamic and the fact that Mrs Dashwood and Marianne are
00:17really cut from the same cloth. And by the end of the film they have shared their traits and become
00:24more well-rounded women. But Eleanor is much more practical so I think the practical element of Eleanor
00:30was clothing needs to be functional, it needs to be structured, it needs to be neat.
00:35And then with Marianne and her sensibility I wanted her to feel more free and loose and undone.
00:41And I think in total our two sisters had about 80 costume changes.

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