The slaves' clothes?


This telenovela has extremely high production values, although the characters are a bit over the top as you might expect from a telenovela. The character of Victoria seems to have been written with a young Joan Collins in mind. Nicolas' mother was an arch snob, although maybe not too far from the truth from what I have heard about the attitudes of women from Spain toward the new world. As for the brutal overseer, they cannot heat the fires of hell hot enough!

My only real concern was with the modern style dresses of the slaves. Many of the spaghetti strapped sun dresses appeared to have been purchased from a department store in 2015. I found it so distracting as I looked for shirring elastic in the tops of the dresses, and I swear one character's dress had a zip at the back. And where did they obtain the brightly colored fabrics and tailored shirts? Surely the male plantation slaves would have been wearing shapeless unbleached cotton shirts, and the women cotton shifts. The residents of the palenque would have had no access to brightly colored and patterned fabrics. In one scene the young Miguel was wearing a yellow shirt with a white collar, and more than one man wore bright red or green!

Overall, this minor quibble was not sufficient to mar my enjoyment of an excellent series, but I would have preferred Morales to have eased up on the flogging.

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Hahaha....I agree, the costumes were over the top. The males slaves had better shirts than I have in my closet.

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I was thinking the same thing! Totally distracting!

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Also, some of the hair accessories had bright colored curling ribbons!

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It's called "artistic license". Did you also notice some of the handbags? Straight out of the early 1970's. There was more than one zipper on the dresses. There were a LOT.

You are correct on the colors and fabrics. The clingy polyester looking dresses were soooo out of place. Slave owners would have never paid for nice clothing and bold colors. Take a look at fingernails. OMG, a slave with 100% clean nails?

I thought Victoria was so self centered. As was Miguel. They were not good planners and appeared more concerned with their love than anything else. I actually thought they were idiots. My favorite characters were Reme, Melagros, Filipe, Julian and Ana. They were more realistic and down to earth.

Have you also noticed all the modern day expressions being used? No chance in hell they were used in the early 19th century. I wish I had written them all down. One was "on it" like I am on it in today's rhetoric.

The furniture was a hodgepodge. One bed set didn't have a matching headboard and foot board. Much of the furniture wasn't period correct. The rooms were also waaaay too small. Overall, much of this series seemed low budget. However, I did watch all 62 episodes.

There is enough of an opening to write a 2nd season. Felipe marries Ana. Isabelita marries the doctor. Eugenia has a baby with the old general. Victoria and Miguel have a couple of kids and then BAM..... Nicholas comes back.

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