On a crisp overcast day in early December, Bernadette Banner is sitting on the steps of the New York Public Library. You’d think that in 2019, she would stick out in her Lady Sherlock Holmes outfit.

Still from “What You ACTUALLY Need to Make Clothes in an Apocalypse” by Bernadette Banner (screenshot by Dan Schindel) For this edition of Hyperallergic’s video essay column, we’re doing something a ...

Dress historian Bernadette Banner fact checks the historical accuracy of the costumes and wardrobe in the musical film Mary Poppins. She analyzes the Edwardian Period that the film is set in and the ...