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Fast Fashion in Game of Thrones
Haute Couture and the Nobility of Westeros
In the TV Series a Game of Thrones there’s a scene where Margaery Tyrell, prior to being married to Joffrey and all that nonsense is visiting the poor of King’s Landing. She’s wearing a really nice and obviously custom made dress. But then she — unbothered — clomps through some filth and the train of her dress drags through what is very likely human and animal waste. Her Lady kinda low-key freaks out and comments that she’s about to ruin her dress and Margaery — still very unbothered — comments “I have others,” before carrying on her merry way. The Lady is disgusted and gathers up the hems of her own skirt to carefully pick her way through the filthy street in such a way that her clothes won’t be sullied.
This scene is almost a throwaway. There’s very little point to it and its dialogue but for me this is where Dan and Dave showed that they can’t write to save their damn lives. For me, this was the scene where the proverbial shark was jumped. The point of the scene was to essentially make parallels between Margaery and Diana. Essentially it was to turn her into “the people’s princess.” And Dan and Dave couldn’t resist a little snarky ‘not like other girls’ moment by making the Lady in Waiting look bad.
