In that photo you shared, the women all look like they're wearing generic outfits with short knee-length skirts from any time from 1940 onwards (Depression skirts were mid-calf or longer). And if it's a chilly boarding house in northern Minnesota, why so many light weight and sheer fabrics, lack of layers and short sleeves? Also, the lack of period hairstyles, particularly the African-American woman's, which is a very modern concept (it was more or less the same in London). But perhaps I'm just nit picking.
Initially, I only suggested northern England as a setting for the show because it seemed (to this NYer) to be a place McPherson and his company would be more familiar with (and honestly, before I saw the show in London I assumed that's where the title referred :)) |
