All of the costumes look brand new. Even the street hoods look like they are wearing brand new clothes. Also the streets look so clean. Hell's Kitchen in the 60's was dirty and rundown. There's a lot if problems with the show, but everything lookung new and so clean is unrealistic.
shareThat's one of my peeves with period dramas, too. I think the Art Direction department for these types of films/series blows all of their budget on acquiring the old cars, clothes, etc., but they forget to spend anything on aging their props so they look as though they're actually being used by people.
I will give this show some credit, though: the props here look more authentic than they did on some other similar shows of the same subject/time-period, such as Vegas, or Mob City.
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On the Walking Dead someone complained about the clothes an army of zombies were wearing after they were able to leave the bottom of a rock quarry. They said they looked alike. I said they have been in the rain, heat, and dust for months on end so their rags probably look about alike.
My pet peeve is religious movies from Biblical times. They have people running around in snow white robes. Most of those people would have had something looking like a filthy potato sack to their name.
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My main issue with these sort of period things is that they're always striving for accuracy on what people wore, ate, drove, watched and listened to etc but it's like they forget that people drove OLD cars or usually wore their old suits to work etc.
I remember when I started work in the late 80s, it was hilarious. You'd expect (looking back) that everyone in the 80s was wearing really 80s clothes but they weren't. They were wearing in some instances, the same 1960s and 1970s suits and clothes they've been wearing forever! Or their wedding suits from 10 years before etc. Or in some cases, some were stuck in some weird 1950s warp where they had the same horn-rimmed glasses and ill fitting suits with a big greasy quiff.
You'd also expect most cops not to be wearing the latest fashion, although if they were on the take they take the time to spend a bit more on clothes but...