"We dress them historically from the skin up, so they are absolutely accurate," Dresbach says. "They are architectured, so corsets support your back, they make you stand up straight, if done properly, they don't hurt. The dresses are built in ways that are kind of like making buildings, so if they're done right, they shouldn't be painful. And our actors are in them for a really long time, so we do everything we can to make sure they're not painful. Each one of the gowns is about 12 to 15 yards of fabric. A dress today, a cute little minidress, is a yard and a half of fabric. These gowns are 15 yards. It's a lot of fabric. If they're properly made, the weight is balanced to some degree."