Dumping Ground

While I have some Thoughts on the costuming for HotD in general, what I really cannot get over as someone who has a fair interest in historical clothing is that somehow, over the course of several hundred years, the silhouettes these characters wear have barely changed. We are stuck in fantasy medieval purgatory forever. Hello??? That's not how fashion works.

And I don't say this just because I like to complain. The same-y costuming makes it genuinely hard to feel like these stories take place centuries apart: there are no visual cues to help the viewer implicitly understand where each show falls on a timeline. If GoT costuming pulls inspiration from medieval and renaissance silhouettes, it stands to reason that HotD costumes should’ve pulled from early-to-middle Byzantine fashion or the like. Similarly, the great house sigils should be changing stylistically from one show to the next as artistic trends continue to develop over time.