‘Bridgerton’ Costume Designer John Glaser Talks Cressida’s Episode 6 Red Dress: ‘It’s Like An F-U Dress’

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 3 of “ Bridgerton ,” now streaming on Netflix. Nothing’s wrong with being “Confident,” at least according to one Miss Cressida Cowper. Her stunning red revenge dress in episode 6 of “Bridgerton” season 3 comes with a side of lies: Cressida pretending to be Lady Whistledown.

While costume designer John Glaser says the red dress was dictated in the script, he felt the need to make the gown into an entrance dress, complete with a huge bow in the back. “It’s translucent, so it’s not giant, heavy,” Glaser says. “It still has mystery to it.

You’re not really sure where it stops, where it starts and you’re not really sure if it’s a red dress.” Glaser attributes the color ambiguity to the layering in the dress: the under fabrics of the gown were hot pink, with the over fabric a deep burgundy, creating a dynamic red. As for Cressida’s fashion throughout the season, Glaser says the costume team heightened her sleeves, creating an almost shoulder pad-esque feel to her gowns, to “give her some armor” because of her shifting storylines throughout the season.

He says while they were unable to amp up the shoulders for episode 6’s red dress, the bow in the back added to her protection. “It’s like an F-U dress when she walks in,” Glaser says. As for the true Lady Whistledown, Glaser says styling Nicola Coughlin for her leading season involved changing her silhouette from the classic Regency s.