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But April Calahan, a fashion historian at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, explains that Belle's two main dresses aren't actually reflective of what women would've had in their closets at the time the film is setnamely because they feature design elements cherry-picked from totally different eras: "The Disney animators have taken design and aesthetic references spanning several different decades to basically create a romanticized, fictionalized historic past." Belle's yellow ball gown, for one, is missing several layers and is less shapely than a typical dress of the time

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