"Historical" movies are one of the worst examples of this.
Straight up revisionism, considering that bright colors dominated throughout most of human history.

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Bright colors used to be a sign if wealth too because of the cost of dyes. Our ancestors would be offended.
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One of the things I really enjoyed about The Gilded Age on HBO was that the wealthy women were sometimes in EYE-SEARING color combos. My big hate-on for Steampunk is that everything is BROWN when the Victorians were truly going balls out with new brilliant colors & dyes thanks to industrialization!
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