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From The Walking Dead to Game Of Thrones, The X-Files and more, here are a few homage-paying TV show costumes with nerdy details...

When most of us get dressed in the morning, it's a question of what's clean, to-hand, and won't blatantly reveal the fact that the cat has spent the weekend lounging on it like a Playboy centrefold. They're just clothes. Things to cover your bits and prevent you from sticking to the bus seat.

Not so for TV characters, whose outfits aren't just for insulation, but help to tell the story. Costume designers and showrunners often deck their characters out in key bits of kit chosen specifically to nod to the past or future, or to pay homage to an inspiration. That's what's happened in these eleven examples...

1. One of several places that other work by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman turns up or...

As a die-hard Game of Thrones fan you might be able to name all three of Daenerys' dragons or each of the Seven Kingdoms – but can you match the elaborate costumes with their characters? Here The Hollywood Reporter presents seven costumes, some more recognizable than others. Write down your guesses for whom they belong to, and check your work at the bottom of the post. Photos Secrets Stiched into the 'Game of Thrones' Gowns The show's own master embroiderer, Michele Carragher, provided photos to THR. (Visit her website here.) Last month, she and the show's designer,

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This story first appeared in the May 30 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Game of Thrones fans seeking deeper insight into the personalities and predicaments of their favorite characters would do well to pay closer attention to their clothing. In each episode, subtle clues to a character's evolution are hidden in plain sight within magnificently encrusted embroidery, all of which is drawn freehand then painstakingly stitched by the show's own master embroiderer, Michele Carragher, who has her own London-based atelier. "The embroidery is a subliminal way to tell someone's story," says Michele Clapton, the show's Emmy-winning designer who

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What a busy twelve months it’s been for costume design. Really though, this art, or craft, or business (Deborah Nadoolman Landis insists it is definitely a business) gets more talked about each year. 2013 was especially exciting however as it seemed every month something even more thrilling arrived to fawn over. In the last few weeks alone we have had The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Sleepy Hollow, and now American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street on the horizon. Dipping back further, it was Stoker that got us excited about subtext, The Great Gatsby that slammed the lid on that twenties revival once and for all, and Behind the Candelabra that put Michael Douglas in a 16ft fox fur cape and white brocade jumpsuit.

With just so many memorable movies and TV shows to cover, Clothes on Film asked some respected contributors to the site for their opinions on the best,...

Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) is the quintessential evil queen, right up there with The Queen from Snow White and the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland. Or is she..? Throughout Game of Thrones we have been given clues as to Cersei’s motivations and character, and by the end of Season 3 she has become, partially at least, a sympathetic character.

While Cersei was not involved with the Walder-Frey-Marry-One-Of-My-Daughters plotline, which famously leads to the gruesome ‘Red Wedding’; that plot really drove home that point that in this world women are only worth how beautiful they are. Even Robb Stark, one of the so-called good guys, was horrified at the thought of having to marry one of Frey’s ugly daughters. Edmure Tully is loath to the idea as well, until, much to everyone’s surprise and relief, his bride is revealed to be beautiful. Even writers in our own world,...