The dress was vintage from Western Costume, though Bryant gave it a “facelift” and dyed some pumps hot pink to match the dress and added vintage shoe clips for a Roger Vivier effect. “I love the idea of the two strand, because Jackie Kennedy used to wear the two stranded pearls, and I feel like it’s just so classic,” she says.Īs the season progresses, Beth Ann gets more adventurous, experimenting with a pink dress and pumps for a “breakout moment” in which she’s trying something new to “seduce” Rob and gain confidence. She wears two strands of pearls (from Western Costume Company) in practically every scene, paired with a beige or light olive green dress with an apron - mostly designed by Bryant and made in a tailor shop on the CBS lot.
So she is quite meek and old-fashioned,” Bryant tells The Hollywood Reporter. Her character is quite modest she is almost stuck in a time of the 1950s housewife.
At the beginning, her color palette is “very quiet, bland, dull and lifeless. Cancellations Mount as the Fashion Industry Reacts to Global Conflictįor the 1963 period, Bryant drew on her experience as costume designer of Mad Men in creating a midcentury style with A-line dresses for doting housewife Beth Ann.