<p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/0000047414_20080318122617.jpg"><img title="THE TUDORS - Season 2" style="border-right:0;border-top:0;display:inline;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" height="822" alt="THE TUDORS - Season 2" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/0000047414_20080318122617_thumb.jpg" width="649" border="0" /></a></p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/kinghenryandanneboleynthetudors200082.jpg"><img title="King-Henry-and-Anne-Boleyn-the-tudors-2000893-700-500" style="border-right:0;border-top:0;display:inline;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" height="464" alt="King-Henry-and-Anne-Boleyn-the-tudors-2000893-700-500" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/kinghenryandanneboleynthetudors200082_thumb.jpg" width="649" border="0" /></a></p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20100409061903488_640w.jpg"><img title="THE TUDORS - Season 4" style="border-right:0;border-top:0;display:inline;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" height="432" alt="THE TUDORS - Season 4" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20100409061903488_640w_thumb.jpg" width="648" border="0" /></a></p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20100409061852957_640w.jpg"><img title="THE TUDORS - Season 4" style="border-right:0;border-top:0;display:inline;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" height="432" alt="THE TUDORS - Season 4" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20100409061852957_640w_thumb.jpg" width="648" border="0" /></a></p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20090114001407932_640w.jpg"><img title="THE TUDORS - Season 3" style="border-right:0;border-top:0;display:inline;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" height="432" alt="THE TUDORS - Season 3" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20090114001407932_640w_thumb.jpg" width="648" border="0" /></a></p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20090114001413697_640w.jpg"><img title="THE TUDORS - Season 3" style="border-right:0;border-top:0;display:inline;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" height="431" alt="THE TUDORS - Season 3" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20090114001413697_640w_thumb.jpg" width="649" border="0" /></a></p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20090114001426524_640w.jpg"><img title="THE TUDORS - Season 3" style="border-right:0;border-top:0;display:inline;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" height="435" alt="THE TUDORS - Season 3" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20090114001426524_640w_thumb.jpg" width="649" border="0" /></a></p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20090114001435836_640w.jpg"><img title="THE TUDORS - Season 3" style="border-right:0;border-top:0;display:inline;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" height="431" alt="THE TUDORS - Season 3" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20090114001435836_640w_thumb.jpg" width="651" border="0" /></a></p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20090114001438743_640w.jpg"><img title="THE TUDORS - Season 3" style="border-right:0;border-top:0;display:inline;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" height="436" alt="THE TUDORS - Season 3" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20090114001438743_640w_thumb.jpg" width="651" border="0" /></a></p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20090114001424165_640w.jpg"><img title="THE TUDORS - Season 3" style="border-right:0;border-top:0;display:inline;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;" height="430" alt="THE TUDORS - Season 3" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/thetudors20090114001424165_640w_thumb.jpg" width="650" border="0" /></a></p>  <p>I’ll admit it.&#160; I watch television shows because of the clothes.&#160; And if the clothes are good enough, I’ll watch a show long after it should have stopped airing – for example, Desperate Housewives.&#160; I study and am obsessed with American history but all good English majors turned American history graduate students have spent countless hours in literature classes with titles that begin with the words “Literature of” and ends with “Greco-Roman,” “Medieval,” “Renaissance,” “Edwardian,” “English Reformation,” “Tudor Era,” “Victorian England” or my favorite, “the post-modern world”.&#160; I am awed by the literary tradition and history but I stay for the fashion.</p>  <p>So this brings me to my recent obsession, <em>The Tudors</em>.&#160; I tried to watch it before but didn’t like it.&#160; But I tried again.&#160; <em>The Tudors</em> is extremely entertaining and if you want to sit back and feel superior over all the historical inaccuracies, you should go away because they are everywhere.&#160; If you love over the top clothes, the show is full of large, lush and lovely costuming.&#160; Every episode will make you want to bury your face in crushed velvet and that seems to be part of the charm.&#160; All the gorgeous designs I saw or read about in my early lit and early history classes have been painstakingly reincarnated or reinterpreted.&#160; And that’s the kicker – there are very few ways in which costuming like this can be recreated in our modern day outfits.&#160; I mean, I try to wear a crown around the house and order the Boy around but he doesn’t like that and reacts much as Henry VIII would have also reacted.&#160;&#160; So as I put on another shirtwaist dress inspired by a 50’s Montgomery Ward catalog, I going to escape into these pictures and imagine what it would feel like to wrapped in this much lace and embroidery.</p>  <p>Does anyone know if there are plans to make a costume exhibition of the show’s creations after it wraps up this season?</p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/kinghenryandanneboleynthetudors197402.jpg"><img title="THE TUDORS - Season 2" style="border-right:0;border-top:0;display:inline;margin-left:0;border-left:0;margin-right:0;border-bottom:0;" height="870" alt="THE TUDORS - Season 2" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/kinghenryandanneboleynthetudors197402_thumb.jpg" width="653" align="left" border="0" /></a></p>