Bustling With ‘Bridgerton’: The Best of Season 4's Other Half
Bustling with 'Bridgerton' is back for Season 4, and we've got your rundown of Part 2's best looks.
Bridgerton! We wait – with varying degrees of (im)patience – for a new season of your episodes, a new couple to fall in love with as they’re falling for each other, and new ways to be astonished at John Glaser’s wildest flights of costume design fancy. As we’re unlikely to see a fifth season appear before 2028, let’s relish and honor another batch of those costumes while they’re still fresh in our minds.
As much as I love and admire my fellow Sophie, Miss Baek (that is, Miss Gun) doesn’t vary her wardrobe much until the final scenes of the season finale, and while her costumes for the ball and her mid-credits wedding to Benedict were lovely, they weren’t terribly memorable in comparison with the season’s biggest highlights.
I’ll be focusing instead on Queen Charlotte, Hyacinth Bridgerton, and my favorite reformed villainess, Lady Penwood (née Cressida Cowper, whose very remarkable costumes for Season 3 I covered at some length). Queen Charlotte is always such a standout in Bridgerton that I dithered for a bit about her inclusion here. After all, she has to be costumed in a grander and more elevated (or over the top, if you prefer) style to signal her rank and station. Obviously, there will be something remarkable to notice and discuss with every ensemble.
